First child born in Britain by pregnancy transplantation

A London hospital said on Tuesday that a baby girl has become the first to be born in UK for the first time when her aunt donated her uterus to her mother.

Amy was born on 27 February at Queen Charlots and Chelsea Hospital in London, two years after her mother, Grace Davidson received a pregnancy transplant from her elder sister.

The new Mam said, “We have been given the biggest gift that we could have been asked for anytime.”

He said that he hoped that “it could be a wonderful reality, and would provide an additional option for women who would otherwise be unable to carry their child”.

His father Angus Davidson told the Press Association News Agency, “The room was full of people who have really helped us in the journey of Amy.”

He said, “We were like suppressing emotions, perhaps for 10 years, and you don’t know how it is going to come out – the ugly cry is revealed,” he said.

36-year-old Grace Davidson, suffering from a rare condition, is known as the Mayor-Rokitanski-Custer-Housser syndrome and was born without a working pregnancy, the hospital said in a statement.

She became the first woman in the UK to receive a pregnancy transplant, donated by 42 -year -old her sister Amy Purdi, with two daughters, who were 10 and six.

The transplant was done in February 2023 at the Oxford Transplant Center, a part of the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation.

Professor Richard Smith, a advisory gynecological surgeon, who co-dubbed the UK donor program, stated that Amy’s birth was “the culmination of more than 25 years of research”.

In 2013, more than 100 pregnant transplants have been performed worldwide since the first in Sweden, and about 50 healthy babies have been born.

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