Following the six-hour procedures, the women in the trial will have to be on immunosuppressant drugs following the transplant and throughout any subsequent pregnancy to ensure the donated womb is not rejected. Yes, you can now get a whole new womb if yours is being a bit of a dick, thanks to an operation that went down really well over in Sweden.
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UK’s first 10 womb transplants have been granted ethical permission after a woman successfully gave birth to a baby from a transplanted womb in Sweden on September 2014. After a year on immunosuppressant drugs and close monitoring, each woman who receives the operation will be implanted with one of her embryos. This procedure has the potential to satisfy that innate desire’.
The procedure will cost women about $60,000. Just to make sure there’s no nasty rejection, or issues.
The first baby born via womb trasplant in Sweden to a 36-year-old woman was named Vincent, which means “to win” in Latin. He was the world’s first, but three more have since been born in the country from wombs transplanted from living donors. ‘Surrogacy is an option but it does not answer the deep desire that women have to carry their own baby.
Great news for women and couples everywhere.
The baby boy was born nearly a year ago and both he and his mother are fine (see photo above), and in fact Dr. Mats Brannstrom has had 3 more babies born by womb implants in the past year and another is in progress at the moment.
Mr Smith acknowledges that the transplant is not without risks but says that a few women are so heartbroken by their infertility that they will believe they are worth taking.
He said childlessness could be a “disaster” for couples, but the technique would offer hope to those whose only other option is surrogacy or adoption.
Around one in 5,000 women is born without a womb. “If [it] really takes off, it will revolutionise the way we treat women with these womb problems”.
The success story of the first pregnancy stirred doctors from the United Kingdom Research Team led by J. Richard Smith, a consultant gynecologist at the West London Gynaecological Cancer Centre, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College London. Those criteria include having a long-term partner, being of a healthy weight, and being under the age of 39.
Embryos will be created in a frozen state before the trial starts.
Organ donor co-ordinators have suggested that around five wombs per year could be made available to the surgical team.
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If successful, the baby would be delivered by Caesarean section to prevent the donor womb undergoing the strain of labour. “Somehow or other, somebody has always turned up and given us enough money to keep it going”.
