“Surgeons are hailing an ‘astonishing’ medical breakthrough as a woman became the first in the UK to give birth after a womb transplant.

Grace Davidson, 36, who was a teenager when diagnosed with a rare condition that meant she did not have a uterus, said she and her husband, Angus, 37, had been given ‘the greatest gift we could ever have asked for’.

They named their five-week-old girl Amy Isabel – after Grace’s sister, Amy Purdie, who donated her own womb during an eight-hour operation in 2023, and Isabel Quiroga, a surgeon who helped perfect the transplant technique.

Davidson said she felt shocked when she first held her daughter, who was born by planned NHS caesarean section on 27 February at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital in London. She said: ‘It was just hard to believe she was real. I knew she was ours, but it’s just hard to believe.'”

From The Guardian.