For the first time in the UK, a woman with a transplanted womb has given birth. A transplant is when someone gets a new body part to replace one that has failed or isn’t working properly. A womb, also called a uterus, is the organ in which a baby grows during pregnancy.
The baby, a little girl, was born at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, London, on 27 February. Her mother, Grace Davidson, said she and husband Angus had been given “the greatest gift we could ever have asked for”.
As a teenager, Grace Davidson was told she had Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, a condition where the womb is missing or hasn’t developed properly. To carry a baby in her body, Davidson needed a womb transplant.
The donated womb came from Davidson’s…
