Penn Medicine’s first living donor uterus transplant Cheryl Cichonski-Urban donated her uterus to Chelsea Jovanovich through Penn Medicine’s Uterus Donation program. In May, Jovanovich gave birth to a baby boy. Chelsea Jovanovich’s 12-week ultrasound. Because of a congenital disorder called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome, Jovanovich did not have a uterus. Through the first-ever living donor uterus donation at Penn, she received one from Cheryl Cichonski-Urban.
As proud new mom, Chelsea Jovanovich tenderly placed her newborn son into Cheryl Cichonski-Urban’s arms, the two women marveled at baby Telden’s angelic features, sweet disposition, and one other remarkable detail that two moms don’t typically share: The uterus where Telden spent months growing inside Jovanovich’s body is the same uterus that brought Urban’s children into the world about a decade before. It was a profound moment that m
First baby born after uterus transplant in France
Published February 17, 2021 5:42pm A baby has been born following a uterus transplant for the first time ever in France, the hospital treating mother and infant said Wednesday. Such births are extremely rare but not unprecedented, and come after a cutting-edge procedure to transplant a healthy uterus into a woman whose own is damaged or missing. The baby, a girl weighing 1.845 kilograms (4.059 pounds), was born on Friday, according to the team at the Foch hospital outside Paris. Mother and baby are doing well, Jean-Marc Ayoubi, head of gynaecology, obstetrics and reproductive medicine at the hospital, told AFP.
Men Now Want Access to Uterine Transplants
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It isn’t good enough that men want to compete in woman’s sports and invade women’s spaces, rendering sex-based protections null and void. Now, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published the findings from the largest study on its kind, “Perceptions and Motivations for Uterus Transplant in Transgender Women.”
This study looked at reproductive aspirations of transgenderwomen (biological males). Surveying 182 transgender women, researchers found that more than 90 percent believed that a uterine transplant might “improve quality of life in transgender women, alleviate dysphoric symptoms, and enhance feelings of femininity.”