Two Women to give birth using Transplanted Wombs donated by their Own Mothers

In a remarkable breakthrough in the medical world, two women are due to give birth using transplanted wombs donated by their own mothers. This would mean that each womb has carried two generations of the same family.

The two mothers are due to give birth next month. This whole development is the part of the revolutionary Swedish project that aims at enabling childless women to fulfill their dream of starting a family.

Dr Liza Johannesson of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg is associated with the project. Dr. Liza said that the pregnancies were developing well and the mothers were 'really excited' at seeing their babies that are due next month.

She said, "It is also really exciting to have your mother as a donor. It is a very nice gift to give to your daughter". These successes of this project will surely provide hope to a similar ongoing project in the UK, wherein 60 women are waiting for a new womb.

Prior to this, the world's first womb swap baby, named as Vincent, was born on Friday by a C-section. Though it was born two months prematurely, it weighed just under 4lb. The mother of this baby was a 36-year-old woman who is a part of a clinical trial of nine women, two more of whom are due to have babies by the end of the year.

This proud mother received a womb from a close family friend who had completed her family. She was born without a womb, a rare condition that affects 5,000 girls born in Britain each year.

Dr. Brannstrom, of Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, in Sweden, said that the success of such cases surely mean that womb transplants could be offered to a much wider group of women who have lost their womb after suffering from cancer or other diseases, complications after birth and those who had deformed wombs or have adhesions or scars.


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