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PARIS – A baby was born after a uterus transplant for the first time in France, the hospital that treats the mother and baby said on Wednesday.
These births are extremely rare, but not unprecedented, and occur after a state-of-the-art procedure to transplant a healthy uterus to a woman whose own is damaged or lost.
The baby, a girl weighing 1,845 kilograms (4,059 pounds), was born on Friday, according to the team at the Foch hospital on the outskirts of Paris.
“The mother and baby are fine,” Jean-Marc Ayoubi, head of gynecology, obstetrics and reproductive medicine at the hospital, told AFP.
The 36-year-old mother, whose name was given only as Deborah, was born without a uterus because she suffered from a rare disease known as Rokitansky syndrome, which affects one in 4,500 women.
She received a uterus transplant in March 2019, performed by the same team that gave birth to the baby, from her own mother, then 57 years old.
The first birth after a uterus transplant was in Sweden in 2014.
It came a year after transplant surgery in a case that was documented in The Lancet medical journal.
Other such births have been documented in the US and Brazil, but they remain rare.
The cases offer hope to women with similar reproductive problems, as an alternative to adoption or surrogacy.
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