Woman becomes first in UK to have Baby after womb transplant

A woman has made history to become the first in the UK to have a baby with transplanted womb.

Scientists on Monday April 7, 2025 hailed the birth of Amy Isabel Davidson after 25 years of painstaking research helped her mum, Grace, 36, defy the odds to start a family.

In an astonishing gift of love, she received the uterus from her older sister, Amy, in the UK’s first womb transplant in 2023.

Now she has given birth to baby Amy Isabel, named after her aunt and a surgeon who helped perfect the technique.

The news gives hope to thousands of women born without a womb or whose womb failed to functions.

Mrs Davidson, NHS dietitian, and her finance worker husband Angus, 37, are over the moon with their new arrival Baby Amy was born by planned NHS Caesarean Section in February 27 at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in London.

Mrs Davidson said she felt “shock” when she first held her daughter, adding that:

“We have been given the greatest gift we could ever have asked for”.

She added. “It was just hard to believe she was real. I know she was ours, but it’s just hard to believe. Our family is just so happy for us. It sort of feels like there’s a completeness now where there wasn’t before”.

-9News Nigeria.