so she s doing really, really well. she has started having menstrual periods, and that means her prospects of having a baby are very high. she needs to stay on immunosuppressive therapy and to be closely monitored, and we hope to be doing an embryo transfer in the autumn. in 2014, a woman in sweden became the first to have a baby after a womb transplant. since then, around 100 transplants have been performed worldwide, with 50 babies born. the surgical team here is funded by a charity, womb transplant uk, and has permission to carry out the procedure with both live and deceased donors. there are a dozen women with embryos in storage or who are going through ivf who are hoping for a womb transplant. for now, the charity has funding forjust three more operations. i m really excited, yeah.
with her husband, she already has eight embryos in storage and could go on to have two pregnancies, after which her sister s womb will be removed so she can stop taking powerful drugs that prevent her body rejecting the transplant. so she s doing really, really well. she has started having menstrual periods and that means her prospects of having a baby are very high. she needs to stay on immunosuppressive therapy and to be closely monitored. and we hope to be doing an embryo transfer in the autumn. in 2014, a woman in sweden became the first to have a baby after a womb transplant. since then, around 100 transplants have been performed worldwide with 50 babies born. the surgical team here is funded by a charity, womb transplant uk, and has permission to carry out the procedure with both live and deceased donors.
so she s doing really, really well. she has started having menstrual periods, and that means her prospects of having a baby are very high. she needs to stay on immunosuppressive therapy and to be closely monitored, and we hope to be doing an embryo transfer in the autumn. in 2014, a woman in sweden became the first to have a baby after a womb transplant. since then, around 100 transplants have been performed worldwide, with 50 babies born. the surgical team here is funded by a charity, womb transplant uk, and has permission to carry out the procedure with both live and deceased donors. there are a dozen women with embryos in storage or who are going through ivf who are hoping for a womb transplant. for now, the charity has funding forjust three more operations.
eight embryos in storage and could go on to have two pregnancies, after which, her sister s womb will be removed so she can stop taking powerful drugs that prevent her body rejecting the transplant. so she s doing really, really well. she has started having menstrual periods and that means her prospects of having a baby are very high. she needs to stay on immunosuppressive therapy and to be closely monitored. and we hope to be doing an embryo transfer in the autumn. in 2014, a woman in sweden became the first to have a baby after a womb transplant. since then, around 100 transplants have been performed worldwide with 50 babies born. the surgical team here is funded by a charity, womb transplant uk, and has permission to carry out the procedure with both live and deceased donors. there are a dozen women with embryos in storage
so it was a veryjoyous moment for everybody. the recipient was born without a normal uterus, but with functioning ovaries. with her husband, she already has eight embryos in storage and could go on to have two pregnancies, after which, her sister s womb will be removed so she can stop taking powerful drugs which prevent her body rejecting the transplant. so she s doing really, really well. she has started having menstrual periods and that means her prospects of having a baby are very high. she needs to stay on immunosuppressive therapy and to be closely monitored. and we hope to be doing an embryo transfer in the autumn. in 2014, a woman in sweden became the first to have a baby after a womb transplant. since then, around 100 transplants have been performed worldwide with 50 babies born. the surgical team here is funded by a charity, womb transplant uk,