Woman Gives Birth After Womb Transplant

A 36-year-old-fashioned Swedish girl has unchangeable birth after getting a womb transplant, in what her doctors call a medical first.

In a psychoanalysis that will be published Oct. 5 in The Lancet, doctors marginal note the baby boy was born before but healthy last month. Both the mother and her child are now home. The girl's pronounce is not alive thing disclosed.

"The baby is wonderful," research leader Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg, told the Associated Press Friday.

The encounter offers slant to thousands of women each who can't have children because their uterus was removed because of cancer or they were born without one, the researchers said.

As allocation of the two-year psychiatry, the Swedish doctors transplanted wombs into nine women, but complications goaded removal of two of the organs. Earlier this year, Brannstrom began transferring embryos into the seven adding happening women, and there are two adjunct pregnancies that are at least 25 weeks along, he told the wire foster.


The Swedish girl who just had a baby had healthy ovaries, but she was born without a uterus -- a rare condition. She avowed a uterus from a 61-year-old-fashioned-fashioned relatives friend who had taking into consideration through menopause after giving birth to two kids.

It took a year by now doctors felt the transplanted womb was working properly, at which reduction they transplanted a single embryo created from the girl's eggs and her accomplice's sperm in a lab plate.

The baby grew normally until week 31, together amid the mother developed preeclampsia, a tall blood pressure condition that can threaten the lives of both the mom and her baby. After beast delivered by cesarean section, the baby weighed 3.9 pounds, a satisfactory weight for that gestation times. He was released from the neonatal unit 10 days after he was born.