Born first baby with a transplanted uterus in the UK

“The room was full of people who helped us on the journey to have Amy,” his father Angus Davidson told the Press Association news agency.

Grace Davidson suffers from a rare condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome and was born without a functional uterus, the hospital explained in a statement.

She became the first woman in the UK to receive a uterus transplant, who was donated by her 42 -year -old sister Amy Purdie, who has two daughters, 10 and six.

The transplant was held in February 2023 at the Oxford Transplant Center.

Professor Richard Smith, a gynecological surgeon who coordinates the United Kingdom’s living donor program, said Amy’s birth was “the maximum point of over 25 years of research.”

More than 100 uterine transplants have been held worldwide since 2013, when the first occurred in Sweden. And almost 50 babies were born thanks to surgery and are in good health.