Woman receives sister's womb in first UK transplant or about the 101 such transplants in the world

Good news!

"The recipient was a 34-year-old woman, and the donor her 40-year-old sister ... Doctors say both recovered well from surgery and the younger sister - with her husband - has several embryos in storage, waiting to be transferred.

A team of more than 30 carried out the procedures, lasting around 17 hours, in adjoining operating theatres at the Churchill hospital in February. ...
"The shocking truth is that there are currently more than 15,000 women of child-bearing age in this country who have Absolute Uterine Factor Infertility. They were either born without a womb or have had a hysterectomy due to cancer or other abnormalities of the womb."

In 2014 a woman in Sweden became the first to have a baby as a result of a womb transplant. She had received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s.

Since then 100 womb transplants have taken place worldwide and around 50 babies have been born, mostly in the US and Sweden, but also in Turkey, India, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Germany and France.

Surgeons in the UK were given permission to begin performing womb transplants in 2015. ..."

Woman receives sister's womb in first UK transplant - BBC News Surgeons in Oxford have carried out the first womb transplant in the UK.