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First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

Grace Davidson gave birth to a baby girl two years after her sister's womb was transplanted into her body.

Originally scheduled to take place in late 2019, the sisters' transplant operation fell through and then looked in doubt for several years during the Covid pandemic. Isabel Quiroga, the surgeon who led the transplant team at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, says although the procedure carried risks for both sisters, it was "life-enhancing and life-creating - and you can't have better than that." Prof Richard Smith, a gynaecological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare, who led the organ retrieval team, has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades.

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