Grace Davidson had her sister’s womb transplanted into her body, and now she’s the first UK mother to give birth with a transplanted uterus. Davidson named her baby Amy Isabel, after her aunt who donated her womb to Grace. “It was quite overwhelming because we’d never really let ourselves imagine what it would be like for her to be here,” Davidson said. The proud mom was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, which impacts the ability to have kids.
“I’m not often short of words but when the baby came out I was speechless—there were a lot of tears in the theater that day,” said Richard Smith, a gynecological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare who led the team which retrieved the womb from Amy. “The whole thing is astonishing and incredibly moving.”
Professor Smith leads the charity Womb Transplant UK, which is undergoing a clinical trial, of which Grace was a part, that will see 15 transplants done from 5 living, and 10 deceased donor organs. Grace’s surgery was paid for by the charity, and has enough to afford two more, according to the BBC.