LONDON (AP) — For the world’s first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb, only a victorious name would do. His mother says that is why his parents named him “Vincent,” meaning “to conquer.”
In an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, the 36-year-old Swedish mother said she learned she had no womb when she was 15 and was devastated.
More than a decade later, she heard about research being led by Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF.
The woman, who asked not to be identified, said she and her partner were told there were no guarantees, but they took a risk and it paid off.
She received her new womb from a 61-year-old family friend, who had previously had two sons. The donor is now baby Vincent’s godmother.
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