A woman born without a uterus has given birth via a donated uterus in the US — a first for the country.
The women suffered from absolute uterine factor infertility (AUI) — a condition where the uterus is non-functioning or non-existent.
The world’s first successful uterus transplant was carried out in Sweden on a woman in her mid-thirties born without uterus, after a 61-year old unrelated woman donated her uterus, according to The Lancet.
Later, the woman gave birth to a male child.
Till date, nearly two dozen such uterus transplants have been carried out across the world, including in India.
“We’ve been preparing for this moment for a very long time. I think everyone had tears in their eyes when the baby came out. I did for sure,” Liza Johan-nesson, an obstetrician and gynaecologists as well as uterus transplant surgeon at Baylor University Medical Centre at Dallas, was quoted as saying in Time magazine on Friday.
The birth, through Caesarean section, took place as part of the hospital’s ongoing uterus transplant clinical trial on women.
“I’ve delivered a lot of babies, but this one was special. When I started my career we didn’t even have sonograms. Now we are putting in uteruses from someone else and getting a baby,” said Robert T. Gunby Jr., obstetrician and gynaecologists from the Baylor hospital. The donor in the US was Taylor Siler, 36, a nurse in the Dallas area, who donated her uterus to the mother (who wish to remain anonymous due to privacy concerns).