{"id":854088,"date":"2025-06-07T22:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/pictorial-uk-records-first-baby-born-after-womb-transplant\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T22:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:13:22","slug":"pictorial-uk-records-first-baby-born-after-womb-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/pictorial-uk-records-first-baby-born-after-womb-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTORIAL: UK records first baby born after womb transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grace with baby Amy and husband Angus and, right, her sister Amy, who donated her womb [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]\n<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

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A British woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl after having her sister\u2019s womb transplanted into her, becoming UK\u2019s first that could benefit thousands more women, Daily Mail reports.\n<\/p>\n

Grace Davidson, 36, who was reportedly born without a womb, and husband Angus, 37, have described welcoming their girl child, Amy Isabel, into the world on the February 27 as \u201cthe greatest gift we could ever have asked for.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Grace was said to have discovered that she had Mayer-Rokitansky-K\u00fcster-Hauser Syndrome at the at of 19.\n<\/p>\n

The syndrome is a condition of the reproductive system which means women are born with no womb or an under developed womb.<\/p>\n

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A team of 20 doctors and nurses were said to be on hand for the caesarean section birth at Queen Charlotte\u2019s and Chelsea Hospital in London, in case of complications, but Amy was born healthy weighing 2.06kg (4.5 pounds) and needed no specialist care.\n<\/p>\n

Amy\u2019s entrance into the world, on February 27, came three weeks earlier than planned as Grace\u2019s cervix started to shorten \u2013 a possible sign that labour was imminent.\n<\/p>\n

Her medical team decided to proceed with an \u2018abundance of caution\u2019, as they wanted to reduce strain on the transplanted womb with a caesarean delivery before Grace went into labour.<\/p>\n

Grace, a dietitian from north London, described holding her baby for the first time as \u201cbeyond amazing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was without any doubt, the best day of our lives. Full of joy, so much happiness and tears. I had longed to be a mum for so long,\u201d she told the Daily Mail.\n<\/p>\n

The baby was named in honour of Grace\u2019s sister Amy Purdie, 42, a mother of two who donated her womb to her sister in February 2023. <\/p>\n

Amy was said to have endured eight hours of surgery and weeks of recovery to donate her womb but described giving the couple the chance to have a baby as \u201ca huge privilege\u201d despite not liking \u201chospitals needles or blood.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The baby\u2019s middle name honours Isabel Quiroga, a consultant from the transplantation and endocrine surgery at The Churchill Hospital, Oxford who co-led the marathon 17-hour surgery to extract and implant the donated womb.\n<\/p>\n

Miss Quiroga, who was present at the delivery, reportedly broke down in tears in the operating theatre when the couple told her of their name plan.\n<\/p>\n

The report added that Professor Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, who co-led the operation with Miss Quiroga said the birth \u201coffered new hope for thousands of women in the UK who would otherwise never have the opportunity to experience the joy of motherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was also revealed that the team has now carried out three more womb transplants on women over the past two years this time using wombs donated by deceased donors \u2013 another UK first.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are all well, menstruating monthly and we are hoping for some pregnancies very soon,\u201d Professor Smith told the Mail.\n<\/p>\n

The couple hope to try or one more child as the womb will e removed within five years so that Grace can stop taking immunosuppressant medication, which can raise the risk of cancer.\n<\/p>\n

See photos below:\n<\/p>\n

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Grace with baby Amy and husband Angus and, right, her sister Amy, who donated her womb [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Baby Amy wriggles happily in her babygrow after safe delivery at Queen Charlotte\u2019s and Chelsea Hospital in London [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Baby Amy Isabel shortly after her delivery. [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Baby Amy [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Angus Davidson with newborn baby Amy Isabel [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]
following her recent birth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grace Davidson with her new baby Amy Isabel, and the child\u2019s aunt Amy (right) [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grace and Angus cuddle baby Amy [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Angus and Grace with baby Amy and adult Amy, who offered her womb up for transplant \u2013 despite being scared of needles [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grace and baby Amy with the medical team who helped deliver her at Queen Charlotte\u2019s and Chelsea Hospital in London [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grace with baby Amy and husband Angus [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grace with baby Amy and husband Angus [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grace with baby Amy and husband Angus and, right, her sister Amy, who donated her womb [Credit: Womb Transplant UK]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Deborah Sanusi
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Grace with baby Amy and husband Angus and, right, her sister Amy, who donated her womb [Credit: Womb Transplant UK] A British woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl after having her sister\u2019s womb transplanted into her, becoming UK\u2019s first that could benefit thousands more women, Daily Mail reports. Grace Davidson, 36, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144458,1218],"tags":[144457,7738],"class_list":{"0":"post-854088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pictorial","8":"category-records","9":"tag-pictorial","10":"tag-records"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}