Greatest
gift a mum can give to her daughter. Two women have given birth using
wombs donated by their own mothers. The pair become the first ever to
have children using the very womb that brought them into the world a
generation earlier.
The breakthrough brings hope to women who want children but were born without a womb or have had it removed.
The two mothers are among nine women to have been given womb transplants – seven of which have succeeded.
Allan
Pacey of the British Fertility Society said: ‘That’s a very good
success rate for a new surgical procedure. If it carries on like this,
it may have a massive impact on things like surrogacy.
‘Women would much prefer to have their own baby and be pregnant than watch another woman be pregnant.’
The babies – both boys – were born a month ago in Sweden and are doing well with their mothers at home.
Henrik
Hagberg, a professor in foetal medicine at King’s College London, who
was at the first birth, praised the grandmothers who had hysterectomies
to donate wombs to their daughters.
‘It is an absolutely extraordinary gift. It is probably the best thing you can do for your daughter,’ he said.
‘The
mothers were still very much doubting whether things would really go
well. You don’t take anything for granted when you have experienced all
of the problems they have been through.’
The first child, who weighed 5lb 8oz, was born to a 29-year-old Swede who lacked a womb at birth.
The mother
of the second boy, who weighed in at 5lb 15oz, is 34 and had her womb
removed when she was treated for cancer in her 20s.
Both
babies were delivered by Caesarean section around a month early. They
join another history-making boy, named Vincent. Born in September as
part of the Gothenburg University project, he was the first in the world
to be born from a womb transplant.
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