For the first time in North America, a mother gave birth to a healthy baby via a transplanted uterus from a dead donor. The birth was a C-section.
, the baby girl was born in June via cesarean section, and currently both mother and baby are healthy and happy.
Doctors transplanted the womb into the mother, who is in her mid-30s, in late 2017, and a year later she became pregnant through in vitro fertilization. The woman, along with about 1 in 5,000 women, has uterine factor infertility — infertility caused by an issue with the uterus. Some women are born with ovaries but without a uterus, or with an under-developed or non-functioning uterus. In other cases, woman have had to have their uterus removed for medical reasons, such as uterine cancer.
In an amazing video, also released by the Cleveland Clinic, you can see the baby’s moment of birth. She was delivered en caul, with the amniotic sac intact, which is extremely rare and which the clinic says happened spontaneously. The clinic also said that the phenomenon added to the special occasion.
. In that case, the woman received the organ from her 61-year-old friend who had gone through menopause.
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