A woman has spoken to the media for the first time after becoming a mother to the UK’s first child born from a transplanted womb.

Grace Davidson was able to have that opportunity thanks to her sister, who donated her womb in what Davidson called “a huge act of sisterly love.”

Born in February, little Amy Isabel was named after her aunt who donated the womb she was conceived in, and given a middle name of the leader of the team that led her surgery.

The first-ever baby born from a transplanted womb was in Sweden in 2014. The procedure has been replicated dozens of times since then, and 65 babies have come into the world as a result.

A charity in the UK that’s currently running a clinical trial of transplant wombs paid for Davidson’s surgery, and the 17-hour marathon procedure was done pro bono by a staff of 30 physicians and surgeons.

“It was quite overwhelming because we’d never really let ourselves imagine what it would be like for her to be here,” Davidson told the BBC. “It was really wonderful.”

Davidson was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome that results in a woman’s womb being missing or underdeveloped. It doesn’t, evidently, preclude the possibility forever of having children, since the ovaries are intact and normal.

Davidson and her husband Angus had originally planned to seek a womb transplant in 2018, but the original donor proved unsuitable. The pair had received confirmation from Davidson’s sister Amy that she would be willing to donate her womb, which she used to have two children, but the pandemic delayed things further.

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In February of 2023, Isabel Quiroga at Churchill Hospital in Oxford led a team of 30 in performing the procedure, after which Davidson became pregnant at the first attempt of IVF.

“I’m not often short of words but when the baby came out I was speechless—there were a lot of tears in the theater that day,” said Richard Smith, a gynecological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare who led the team which retrieved the womb from Amy. “The whole thing is astonishing and incredibly moving.”

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Professor Smith leads the charity Womb Transplant UK, which is undergoing a clinical trial, of which Grace was a part, that will see 15 transplants done from 5 living, and 10 deceased donor organs. Grace’s surgery was paid for by the charity, and has enough to afford two more, according to the BBC.

HEAR the emotion in their voices in this video report from Reuters…