Two babies born after grandmothers donate wombs for transplant into daughters

IN A medical breakthrough, two baby boys have been born after their grandmothers donated wombs for transplant into their daughters.

Babies born from grandmas’ wombs

IN a medical first, two baby boys have been born after their grandmothers’ wombs were transplanted into their mothers.

The transplants and healthy births, which took place in Sweden, were possible after the grandmothers donated their wombs to their daughters via hysterectomies.

The medical breakthrough may give hope to women who want children but were born without a womb or had it removed.

One of the boys was born to a 29-year-old Swedish woman who was born without a womb, while the second mother, who is 34, had her womb removed when being treated for cancer in her 20s.

The news comes after the first successful womb transplant baby was born in Sweden in October.

The two mothers were part of a group of nine women who were given experimental womb transplants. Seven of them have now successfully given birth.

“That’s a very good success rate for a new surgery like this,” the British Fertility Society’s Allan Pacey told The Daily Mail.

“Women would much prefer to have their own baby and be pregnant than watch another woman be pregnant.”

Breakthrough...the procedure could give hope to women who hope to have children but were born without a womb or had their womb removed. Picture: Thinkstock

For the procedure, doctors first removed the daughter’s eggs and fertilise them and freeze them.

Then, surgeons remove the mother’s womb in a 10-hour operation similar to a hysterectomy. The donated womb is then transplanted into the daughter. After a year, once the transplant is definitely a success, doctors thaw one of her embryos and implant it in the womb.

Doctors praised the generosity of the grandmothers who donated their wombs so their daughters could fulfil their dreams of becoming mums.

“It’s an absolutely extraordinary gift,” said foetal medicine professor at King’s College, Henrik Hagberg.

“It is probably the best thing you can do for your daughter. The mothers were still very much doubting whether things would really go well. You don’t take anything for granted when you have experienced all of the problems they have been through,” he said.

The babies were both delivered via Caesarean around a month early.

Some doctors are now planning to do similar transplants using wombs from brain -dead women, reports the Daily Mail.

The mother of the first transplant baby named him Vincent - which means ‘to conquer’ - in tribute to the great lengths she went to to become a mother.

“As soon as I felt this perfect baby boy on my chest, I had tears of happiness and enormous relief,” she said in October, after Vincent’s birth was revealed to the world. In that case, a friend who was 61 and had gone through menopause donated the womb.

“I felt like a mother the first time I touched my baby and was amazed that we finally did it. I have always had this large sorrow because I never thought I would be a mother – and now the impossible has become real.”