In Ankara, Turkey, a medical miracle
has happened. A woman with a transplanted womb has been pregnant for
6 weeks, and the fetus is healthy. Born without a uterus, 22 year old
Derya Sert was doomed never to be a mother, that is, until August of
2011. It was then that she received the donor womb. Sert was
impregnated, using one of her own eggs back in March. If a successful
birth follows this endeavor, it will bring hope to women who are
born with out uteri. According to Akdenz University Hospital, the
hospital that has performed the transplants, 1 in 5,000 women are
born without a uterus. As of this article's writing, that means that
there are 707,854 uterus-less women who now have a hope.
Derya isn't the first to receive a
successful womb transplant. In September, doctors in Sweden performed
the very first mother-to-daughter womb transplant without any
complications. I find this interesting. If the daughter were to get
pregnant and have a child, her son or daughter will have grown in the
same womb that his or her mother did!
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