Listening to vicky there, it really kind of hits home that actually this is the kind of technology that would have really have helped her, the kind of procedure that would have helped and i guess you must know a lot a lot of women have been through the situation vicky has. yes, it s a devastating situation to be told that your family has to be complete for you are before you re ready for it to be finished but is not as uncommon as one might think and it s always a devastating situation when it happens so for those women who have maybe had a child but have had to have a hysterectomy for whatever reason, it offers some hope. hysterectomy for whatever reason, it offers some hope- hysterectomy for whatever reason, it offers some hope. yeah. vicky, thank ou for offers some hope. yeah. vicky, thank you for sharing offers some hope. yeah. vicky, thank you for sharing that offers some hope. yeah. vicky, thank you for sharing that with offers some hope. yeah. vicky, thank you for s
Good morning. this is chris warburton in for nicky campbell on the nation s phone in. really keen to see what you think about this incredible story we have been learning about this morning. the uk s first womb transplant: does it offer hope for you? they re calling it the dawn of a new era , a new age in fertility treatment. surgeons in oxford having carried out the first ever womb transplant in the uk. and an incredible act of sisterly love. the recipient, a 34 year old woman, donated the womb from her ao year old sister. now, six months on from the procedure, the recipient is having periods and is preparing to eventually have her own embryos implanted, already created
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