By Shawana Alleyne-Morris (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. women who received a uterus through a transplant went on to have successful pregnancies, .
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For Jennifer Dingle, doing the impossible started after a phone call from her mother four years ago, while Jennifer and her husband Jason were stationed in Italy. She called me one day and told me, You re never going to believe what I saw on the news. And I said, What? Jennifer Dingle said.
Her mother had heard about a new clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center that could potentially create a new option for women with uterine factor infertility.
An estimated 1 in 500 women of reproductive age experience absolute uterine factor infertility, which means they can’t get pregnant because they don’t have a functional uterus.