First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

'A little miracle': First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb 7 April 2025 Share Save Fergus Walsh Medical editor Share Save Watch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the "miracle" of baby Amy A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb. The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK's only successful womb transplant. Two years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her first child in February. She and her husband, Angus, 37, have named their daughter Amy after Grace's sister, who donated her womb. Holding baby Amy - who weighed just over two kilos (four and a half pounds) - for the first time was "incredible" and "surreal", new mum Grace says. "It was quite overwhelming because we'd never really let ourselves imagine what it would be like for her to be here," she says. "It was really ... Read full article.