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A new study published in the medical journal The Lancet features a healthy baby born from reintroduced embryos.
Since 1999, researchers from the University of Gothenburg have been conducting a uterus transplantation research project.
The project was conducted to help women who don't have a womb or lost a womb in cancer surgery to experience child birth.
The baby was born after a successful caesarean section making the child the first to be born from a transplanted uterus donated by a 61-year-old woman.
Researchers said that caesarian section had to be performed earlier because the baby's mother developed preeclampsia.
Mats Brannstrom, the doctor who performed the operation, said that the baby boy developed normally.
It weighed 3 lbs and 14.6 oz that is normal to the gestational age at the delivery, he added.
He provided incites on the birth of the baby stating that when the baby was born it screamed right away.
The baby also did not require any other care than normal clinical observations at the neonatal unit, he explained.
According to him, the mother and the infant have already returned home and are doing well.
However, the reason for the preeclampsia remains to be unknown but doctors theorize that it might be due to her immunosuppressive treatment and the fact that the mother was missing a kidney.
Researchers believe that the successful delivery of a child can be considered a major step forward in science.
Brannstrom explained that it gives researchers scientific evidence that uterus transplantation can treat infertility, which up until now remains to be untreated.
He explained that this shows that live donor transplant is possible even if the donor has already experienced menopause.
