Yay! Baby born to woman with uterus transplant
by Claudia Boyd-Barrett posted in Pregnancy
For anyone struggling with infertility because of a non-existent or non-functioning uterus, a new medical breakthrough is offering a ray of hope.
On Friday, Baylor University Medical Center announced that for the first time in the United States, a woman who had a uterus transplant gave birth to a baby.
The only other place this has happened is at a hospital in Sweden, where uterus transplants have resulted in 8 births since 2014.
As estimated 50,000 women in the United States could benefit from this type of surgery, according to the New York Times. These are women who were either born without a uterus, or who had it removed because of childbirth complications, cancer or other problems. Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Image from Baylor Scott & White Health.
Baylor University is withholding the names of the new parents and baby to give them privacy. The mom is involved in a clinical trial with another 9 women. She was born without a uterus and received a transplant from a living donor (a 36-year-old nurse who already had children, according to TIME). Another woman in the trial is also pregnant.
A uterus transplant is complex, involving hours of surgery for both donor and recipient. Women receiving the transplant have to take drugs so their bodies don't reject the new organ. Conception is done through artificial insemination because the uterus cannot be impregnated the natural way. And babies are born via cesarean sectio...
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