http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news...d=11336935
For those of you with more medical knowledge than I possess, does this potentially open up the terrifying possibility that women who have waited too long can simply save a few eggs and get a uterus transplant in order to give birth? Or are there other physical factors other than a healthy uterus?
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In a medical first, a woman in Sweden has given birth after receiving a womb transplant, the doctor who performed the pioneering procedure said Friday.
The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely but healthy last month, and mother and child are now at home and doing well. The identities of the woman and her husband were not disclosed.
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The feat opens up a new but still experimental alternative for some of the thousands of women each year who are unable to have children because they lost a uterus to cancer or were born without one.
For those of you with more medical knowledge than I possess, does this potentially open up the terrifying possibility that women who have waited too long can simply save a few eggs and get a uterus transplant in order to give birth? Or are there other physical factors other than a healthy uterus?