Posted on 10/03/2014 2:32:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
In a medical first, a woman in Sweden has given birth after receiving a womb transplant, the doctor who performed the pioneering procedure said Friday.
The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely but healthy last month, and mother and child are now at home and doing well. The identities of the woman and her husband were not disclosed. […]
The feat opens up a new but still experimental alternative for some of the thousands of women each year who are unable to have children because they lost a uterus to cancer or were born without one. Before this case proved the concept can work, some experts had questioned whether a transplanted womb would be able to nourish a fetus. …
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I was thinking that, too.
Someone’s bound to try it. It’ll be messy, and no “natural” birth is possible if any viable pregnancy occurs, obviously, and that’s aside from the hips being the wrong size and shape.
Alternate title: Make Womb For Baby!
Remember the movie Junior? With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, first man to have a baby? C section was done.
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