France welcomes its first baby born after uterus transplant
Source: The Straits Times/AFP
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PARIS (AFP) - A baby has been born following a uterus transplant for the first time ever in France, the hospital treating mother and infant said on Wednesday (Feb 17).
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 1.845kg, was born last Friday, according to the team at the Foch hospital outside Paris.
"Mother and baby are doing well," said Dr Jean-Marc Ayoubi, head of gynaecology, obstetrics and reproductive medicine at the hospital.
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