The delivery room was filled with giggles and happy tears as a baby boy named Hugo made history, becoming the first child in the United Kingdom to be born to a mother who had received a womb transplant from a deceased donor.
Hugo Powell was delivered at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in London. At the time of birth, he weighed 3.09kg (6lb 13oz), after his mother, Grace Bell, received a transplanted womb from a dead donor.
Baby Hugo’s birth is only the first birth in the UK using a transplanted womb from a deceased donor.
Grace Bell, an IT programme manager, was born with rare Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a condition resulting in either an underdeveloped or a missing womb. In this case, she was born without a womb and didn’t have periods.
A baby has become the first child in the UK to be born using a womb transplanted from a deceased donor.Hugo was born in the UK weighing nearly 7lbs.
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At the age of 16, she was told she wouldn’t be able to bear children.
Bell and her partner Steve Powell were hoping for a womb transplant or surrogacy to have babies. For the couple, the moment came when Bell received a phone call saying a womb had been donated and a transplant was possible, BBC reported.
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