Baby Girl Makes History As First Born From Womb Transplant In The UK

She added that she hoped “going forward this could become a wonderful reality and provide an additional option for women who would otherwise be unable to carry their own child.”

“The room was full of people who have helped us on the journey to actually having Amy,” her father, Angus Davidson, told the Press Association news agency.

“We had been kind of suppressing emotion, probably for 10 years, and you don’t know how that’s going to come out––ugly crying, it turns out,” he added.

Grace Davidson, 36, suffers from a rare condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome and was born without a functioning womb, the hospital said in a statement.

She became the first woman in the UK to receive a womb transplant, which was donated by her sister Amy Purdie, 42, who has two daughters, aged 10 and six.

The transplant was performed in February 2023 at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of the Oxford University Hospitals foundation.

Professor Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecological surgeon who co-leads the UK living donor program, said Amy’s birth was the “culmination of over 25 years of research.”