A baby girl has become the first baby in the UK to be born from a womb transplant after her aunt donated her uterus to her mother.

Amy was born on 27 February at Queen Charlotte and Chelsea Hospital in London, two years after her mother Grace Davidson had a womb transplant from her older sister.

"We have received the greatest gift we could ever have asked for," said the new mother. She hopes "this will become a wonderful reality and provide an additional option for women who otherwise could not carry a child of their own."

"The room was filled with people who helped us on the road to Amy's birth," said her father, Angus Davidson.

Grace Davidson, 36, suffers from a rare condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome and was born without a functioning womb. She became the first woman in the UK to receive a uterus transplant, donated by her sister Amy Purdy, 42, who has two daughters aged 10 and 6.

The transplant was carried out in February 2023 at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation.

Professor Richard Smith said Amy's birth was "the culmination of more than 25 years of research".

Since the first womb transplants in Sweden in 2013, more than 100 such operations have been performed worldwide and around 50 healthy babies have been born. | BGNES