'Astonishing breakthrough': woman becomes first UK womb transplant recipient to give birth

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Surgeons are hailing an ‘astonishing’ medical breakthrough as a woman became the first in the UK to give birth after a womb transplant.
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Grace Davidson, 36, who was a teenager when diagnosed with a rare condition that meant she did not have a uterus, said she and her husband, Angus, 37, had been given ‘the greatest gift we could ever have asked for’. They named their five-week-old girl Amy Isabel – after Grace’s sister, Amy Purdie, who donated her womb during an eight-hour operation in 2023, and Isabel Quiroga, a surgeon who helped perfect the transplant technique. More than 100 womb transplants have been carried out worldwide, with at least 50 babies thought to have been born as a result

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