A girl has become the first baby in Great Britain to be born from a uterus transplant.
Grace Davidson, who underwent the transplant in 2023, said that the birth of her daughter, Amy Isabel, was “the greatest gift she could have ever asked for.”
The 36-year-old from North London received the donated uterus from her older sister, Amy.
This was the first time the procedure was carried out in the UK, and the birth gives hope to thousands of women born without a uterus – such as those with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome – or those whose uterus does not function.
Amy Isabel was named after her aunt.
“It was just hard to believe that she was real. I knew she was ours, but it was just hard to believe,” Davidson, the mother of the baby, said.
Davidson was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser, a rare condition affecting about one in every 5,000 women. This means that these women have an underdeveloped or absent uterus.
However, the ovaries are unaffected and still function to produce eggs and female hormones, making conception possible through fertility treatment.
