First Baby In The USA To Be Born From A Woman After Uterus Transplant

Last month I wrote a piq about infertility and how it’s affecting more and more women and men, especially in western societies. Some of these issues may be fixed through medicine and by following a healthy lifestyle. But what happens when your uterus is physiologically damaged, or if you don’t have a uterus at all?

In the United States 1 in every 4,500 females is born with this condition: these women may have ovaries and a perfectly working birth channel, but lack a uterus. The number of wombless women is far greater than it had been previously thought. The chances for these women and their partners to get pregnant were of course zero. For many of them the news shocked them beyond heartbreak.

But today there’s new hope for those born without a uterus, with a failing one and for those who had it removed due to tumors and cancer, and it comes in the shape of uterus transplants. Each uterus will be removed after the recipient has had one or two babies, so the patient can stop taking anti-rejection drugs. 

Sweden was the first country to have a transplanted uterus baby, and there have been 8 deliveries so far, all of them without complications.

Doctors from Dallas, Texas recently delivered a perfectly healthy baby from one of these women, making her the first of the country and exciting the whole nation. Including a great amount of Trans women who might be able to get pregnant very soon according to Dr Richard Paulson, outgoing President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.