Saturday, October 04, 2014 | 10:00 AM
LONDON (AP) — For the world’s first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb (a medical first) only a victorious name would do, which is why his parents named him ‘Vincent’, meaning “to conquer”, according to his mother.
The 36-year-old Swedish mother learned she had no womb when she was 15 and was devastated, she said Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press.
“I was terribly sad when doctors told me I would never carry my own child,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified.
More than a decade later, she heard about research led by Dr Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF, on transplanting wombs into women who didn’t have one. She immediately signed up.
“Mats told us there were no guarantees, but my partner and I, maybe we like to take risks, we thought this was the perfect idea,” she said.
The woman’s mother had wanted to be a donor but wasn’t a match. Instead, she received her new womb from a 61-year-old family friend, who had previously had two sons.
The womb donor is now baby Vincent’s godmother and her two sons have also come to visit the family.
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Mother with womb transplant says risk paid off
