Woman gives birth after receiving transplant from mother’s uterus

Mayra Montes gave birth to a son, who was born thanks to a uterus she received through transplantation from her own mother, who is now the grandmother of the born child.

Manuel was born at the Clínic Barcelona hospital in Spain on January 2.

Myra suffers from a rare genetic disease that affects one in five thousand women. People with Rokitansky syndrome do not have a uterus.

Thus, a woman will not be able to fulfill her desire to become a mother until April 2022. That same month, Myra received a uterus transplant from her own mother.

Two months later, the Spanish woman got her period for the first time and was able to begin the process of fertilization. Myra’s pregnancy was “absolutely normal,” the hospital said, as quoted by El País.

The woman gave birth by Caesarean section at 37 weeks of pregnancy. In cases of uterine transplantation, normal delivery is not performed so as not to put the organ at risk. The baby was born completely healthy and weighing 2.9 kilograms.

The birth is carried out according to a program developed by the hospital to help women with Rokitansky syndrome. In October 2020, a woman became the first Spanish woman to give birth after receiving a womb.

“The operation is one of the most difficult, and we were able to demonstrate not once, but twice, that we are able to carry it out with good results,” stressed Alcaraz, head of the urology department and kidney transplantation service, as quoted by the Spanish press.