Womb Transplant: Motherhood Hopes For Infertile Women

This is a huge deal for women who struggle with infertility and long to have their own baby

1 in 4000 women across the world is born with no uterus. But now even that woman can bear a child and give birth.

Too sci-fi? Not anymore.

It’s been a long road for doctors, but has paid off big-time. In a huge medical development which will have a major impact on couples who thought they can never have a child, a uterus transplant will now drastically improve the options for infertile women.

Ten women in the United States will soon undergo a uterus transplant, as part of a clinical trial by the Cleaveland Clinic. Till now, Sweden is the only country in the world, which has successfully carried out nine births to mothers, who were either born without a uterus or had it removed because of cancer.

This is really amazing and almost like Star-Trek medicine, but the procedure is highly experimental, and all the risks are still not known.

Here’s what you need to know about this: