Last week, surgeons in England hailed the “astonishing” medical breakthrough by which a 36-year-old woman became the first in this country to give birth following a womb transplant.
The Guardian reported that Grace Davidson, who has Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, a condition in which the womb never fully develops, had her baby, Amy Isabel, by caesarean section. Amy Isabel is named after Grace’s sister Amy Purdie who donated her womb two years ago in an 8-hour operation, and also after Isabel Quiroga, a surgeon who helped perfect the transplant technique.
