A 26-year-old mother has successfully given birth following a uterus transplant.

 

一位26岁经历过子宫移植手术的母亲成功分娩。

 

According to the People's Daily, this is the first case in China, and only the 14th in the world, where a baby has been born to a woman with a transplanted uterus.

 

In 2015, the then 22-year-old visited the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Xijing Hospital in the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province. She was worried about never having a period. After an ultrasound she was shocked to be told that she was born without a uterus.

 

Her mother was determined¹ to see her daughter have an opportunity to have children of her own, and decided² to donate her uterus to her. The transplant surgery was successfully completed at the hospital in November 2015.

 

The new mother gave birth to a healthy two-kilogram baby boy on Sunday after a 39-week pregnancy³. The event marks a breakthrough by China's doctors in the treatment of infertility⁴.

 

Among women of childbearing age in China, around 1 million experience uterine infertility, according to Professor Chen Biliang, the head of the Gynecology and Obstetrics at Xijing Hospital.

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