Baby girl becomes first child in UK to be born from womb transplant

A baby girl named Amy has made history as the first child in the United Kingdom to be born from a womb transplant, following a groundbreaking procedure that gave her mother, Grace Davidson, the ability to carry a pregnancy for the first time.

Amy was delivered on February 27 at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in London, nearly two years after her mother received a uterus from her older sister, Amy Purdie, in a transplant carried out at the Oxford Transplant Centre.

“We have been given the greatest gift we could ever have asked for,” Grace said, expressing her gratitude and hope that the achievement paves the way for more women without wombs to have biological children.

Grace Davidson, 36, was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, a rare condition that meant she had no functioning womb. Her sister, 42-year-old Amy Purdie, who is already a mother of two, stepped in to donate her uterus in an act of extraordinary generosity.

Grace’s husband, Angus Davidson, described the birth as emotionally overwhelming. “We had been suppressing emotion for 10 years, and you don’t know how that’s going to come out – ugly crying it turns out,” he shared.

The transplant and successful birth mark a milestone in British medical history. Professor Richard Smith, the gynaecological surgeon who co-leads the UK living donor womb transplant programme, described Amy’s arrival as the “culmination of over 25 years of research.”

Globally, more than 100 womb transplants have taken place since the first was performed in Sweden in 2013, resulting in around 50 healthy births. Amy’s birth now places the UK among the few countries to have achieved this rare medical feat.