Woman gives birth to world’s first baby from transplanted womb
The donated womb came from the woman’s own mother, making it the first baby in the world born to a woman using the same womb from which she was herself born.The 36-year-old Swedish woman delivered a healthy baby boy weighing 1775g in September, 2014.Scientists announced the breakthrough in the British medical journal The Lancet. The unidentified woman, who has a genetic condition that means she was born without a womb, was one of nine Swedish women who received a uterus transplant from a live donor in 2013.
Dr. Brannstrom, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Gothenburg transferred a single embryo to the new womb, which resulted in a positive pregnancy test 3 weeks later. Fetal growth and blood flows through the uterine arteries and umbilical cord were normal throughout the pregnancy.
The transplanted womb was donated by her 61-year-old mother who had gone through menopause seven years before the surgery.
