Falling pregnant and carrying a child is one of the many reasons the female body is so fascinating. As a woman, it’s almost a natural right to carry a child, so for those who can’t, it is nothing short of devastating. When the news hit the headlines last month about the UK’s first womb transplant, it offered hope to childless women born without a uterus or who had lost one due to medical reasons.
A team of 30 carried out two operations at Churchill Hospital, Oxford, first removing the womb from the donor, then transplanting it into the recipient. The donor, a 40-year-old mother-of-two, decided to help her 34-year-old sister who had been born without a womb, giving her the opportunity to carry her own child one day. Womb transplants are temporary, and in this case, it’s expected to last
