Womb transplant Mum expecting second child

It has been revealed that one of the first women to receive a womb transplant, is expecting her second child. The announcement came at a recent Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists meeting in Birmingham.

In the UK, permission has been granted to perform the first 10 womb transplants in the country. For these transplants, the donated wombs will come from women who are sadly brain dead. However, previously at Prof Mats Brannstrom’s clinic in Sweden, who pioneered the surgery in 2014, most wombs were donated by the women’s own mothers.

The difference in the UK is due to the risks involved in the complex surgery of removing a womb from the donor.

Richard Smith, from the UK Uterine Transplant Research Programme, commented: “Mats Brannstrom and his team have achieved a very important proof of concept and we heartily congratulate them once again.

“Most of all, we have great admiration for all organ donors and those ladies who volunteered to undergo this groundbreaking surgery.

“Absolute uterine infertility is a huge and growing problem affecting tens of thousands of women in this country – and the success of the Swedish team shows that at least some of these women will be able to bear their own child where before there was no hope.”
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