A girl has become the first in the United Kingdom to be born from a uterus transplant, after her aunt donated her mother to her mother, a London hospital said Tuesday.
Amy was born on February 27 at Queen Charlotte and Chelsea Hospital in London, two years after her mother, Grace Davidson, received a transplant from her older sister.
“They have given us the best gift we could have asked,” said the new mother.
He added that he hoped that “in the future this could become a wonderful reality and provide an additional option for women who could not otherwise lead to their own son.”
“The room was full of people who have helped us on the trip to have Amy,” said his father, Angus Davidson, Press Association news agency.
“We had been suppressing the emotion, probably for 10 years, and you don’t know how that will come out, ugly crying, it results,” he added.
Grace Davidson, 36, suffers from a rare condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome and was born without an uterus in operation, said the hospital in a statement.
He became the first woman in the United Kingdom to receive a uterus transplant, which was donated by her sister Amy Purdie, 42, who has two daughters, 10 and six years old.
The transplant was carried out in February 2023 at the Oxford Transplant Center, part of the Hospitals Foundation of the University of Oxford.
Professor Richard Smith, a consulting gynecological surgeon who is copilate of the United Kingdom’s living donor program, said that Amy’s birth was the “culmination of more than 25 years of research.”
More than 100 uterus transplants have been carried out throughout the world from the first in Sweden in 2013, and about 50 healthy babies have been born.
