Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb

Image by Womb Transplant UK Breakthroughs In Scotland, a woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl after getting a womb transplant from her sister. As the BBC reports, couple Grace and Angus Davidsin welcomed baby Amy after the mother's sister, for whom she named her new child, donated her womb. Though it wasn't the first in the world — that took place over a decade ago in Sweden — the birth of baby Amy was the first time in the history of the United Kingdom in which such a feat has been achieved. During the ensuing ten years, doctors have successfully carried out 135 uterine transplants, and 65 babies have been born from the difficult procedures. Born with a rare genetic disorder called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, in which people are born either with non-functioning wombs or without them entirely, 36-year-old Davidson — along with her sister, Amy Purdie — had been trying to assess whether the feat was feasible for years. Though the initial transplantation was set t ... Read full article.