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Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother
kkleiner writes "Led by Dr. Mats Brännström, a team of surgeons at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden are giving Sara Ottosson, now 25 years old, hope that she may one day fulfill her dream of giving birth to a baby. The uterus will come from a very special donor: Eva Ottosson, Sara's mother. Sara's operation will mark only the second time transplantation of a uterus has been attempted in humans, and the first time between a mother and daughter."
Flame on.
might as well get this question out of the way ... if she has a baby, technically, would it be her daughter/son or sister/brother?
Many children inherit their childhood home.
Hey mate, spare a sig?
If mom's past menopause she has no use for it anyway, and that's gotta help with the possibility of not needing to take anti-rejection meds too. Does make one wonder just how well a uterus possibly in its 50's will hold up to pregnancy though? Just because you transplant it into a younger person doesn't make the organ suddenly young again.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
i am my own grandma?
Talk about the gift that keeps on giving!
I feel bad for the girl who has problems with infertility, but is it really responsible to put your child at higher risk by having it grow in an essentially experimental situation, when you could just deal with your unfortunate problem, make the best of a bad situation, and possibly adopt?
This sort of unnecessary medical procedure is why we're such a sick lot.
Silly surgeries, excess anti-biotic prescriptions, pills for every ache and pain.
I would easily put $10K on the fact that if this woman was having problems conceiving that proper chiropractic adjustments would help her! Don't take my word for this, look on YouTube for "Chiropractic fertility" and see what I mean. Many of those videos have a lot of thumbs up, that's like Peer Review for chiros.
But no, pump her full of drugs and make her a female FRANKENSTEIN! Can't wait to see the subluxations she develops.
Take care,
Bob.
Chiropractic Saves Lives!
TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
Fucking adopt. Seriously. Instead of being a bunch of selfish fuckwads demanding to xerox as exact a copy of yourself as possible, how about you save all the money involved in this process and just adopt a kid or two? For the price most people spend in various attempts to squirt one of their own out (aside from this particular incident, of course), they could adopt someone and have their entire college fund taken care of from day one.
I know I'm supposed to feel sorry for people like this. Boo hoo, you can't replicate like a ferrel cat. Tough shit. All those kids without families have it a hell of a lot harder than that.
Well, if she also needs some sperm donors, I'll gladly deliver it directly to her uterus (after it's been transplanted, of course).
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Sometimes having a kid is *just not in the cards*. This might actually make me feel a little sicker than Octomom.
the mother-in-law's uterus. I think my testicles just shrank into my belly.
Children are all about passing your genetic heritage down.
I have a few kids of my own, but I would have no interest in raising someone else's child. Its the equivalent of being cuckolded.
Maybe that makes some people feel good, I would rather just get a pet.
...if the daughter eventually donated it to her daughter in turn, and it became a family heirloom.
i suppose that gives new meaning to "hand-me-down" [/badumpssh]
What's wrong with this fscking Planet? People can't adopt for the greater good anymore?
So chiropractic adjustments can help her GROW A FREAKING UTERUS? She didn't develop one.
I guess the daughter already knew very well this uterus. ;)
Why "flamebait?" I got the same reaction. And I'd be surprised if the woman's husband/mate's penis doesn't implode at that thought.
On another note, why can't people just adopt in these situations?
recursion?
/. is getting most of it's submissions off Yahoo or Google news. That's just sad, considering they are normally a day late or so.
ADOPT! ADOPT! ADOPT!
How can you criticize a woman for doing something like this? She wants to have her own child by any means necessary that's her decision to make. There has been and always will be a different sense of nurturing from the womb onward. My mother is a mother of 4 but a mom to 14+(and this number grows.) She will show love and kindness to any child that comes into her life, but with her 4 boys there's something special. Im sure this is true of any caring mother. It takes a special kind of caring and compassionate person to be an adoptive parent. I applaud these people and I am thankful that they exist in the world, but as a man there will be nothing more special to me than to hold my baby that came from the connection i share with my partner. I know she will feel the same.
How about you focus your misdirected anger at the men and women of the world who choose to spread their legs without thinking of the consequences. Why should they go about their activities with the idea that "meh, someone will adopt this baby." I understand that not every woman has a choice. Some are forced into screwed up situations and they would rather adopt than abort, but these cases are outnumbered by the idiots who engage in senseless acts of procreation.
First you come out of it, then they put it into you, so someone else can come out of it.
Something Old, Something Used, Something Borrowed, Something..... ewwwwww
dont have kids trust me your not missing anything lol.
This is great for writing medical papers, but in truth it is simply irresponsible medicine. If she can't have a child, well, life's a bitch. If this works, she is going to be on massive medication, like any transplant patient. To conceive and carry a child under those circumstances is simply nuts. Even organizations that totally support transplant patients point out the massive risks involved.
If this woman is this desperate for a child, she needs psychological counseling more than she needs a new uterus.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Yup.
Plus the woman will be able to do a chinatown... "She is my daughter.... and my sister..."
(ok, actually not, as she does not have a genetic contribution its not her biological daughter...)
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
The ending bit of the video attached to the article - "if this fails, she plans to adopt". Can you blame her for trying before giving up?
You say "can't replicate like a feral cat", but that is not what is really happening. Those parents who abandon their children usually breed like feral cats (hence there is a great supply of such children), whereas in her case it is not mentioned anywhere that she wants a "houseful" of babies.
You also say that people should better spend their money in different ways. But if they earned it, don't they have the right to choose what to do with it? [as long as it is not something illegal - like buying guns and killing other people]
I may have acted differently, had I been in their shoes, but I can't say I have reasons to say they are stupid or irresponsible.
The saddest poem
Maybe the mom is totally hot and it multiplies hubby's excitement.
cat
Not uterYOU.
Those who oppose and say she should adopt: have any of you adopted? Or is this another case of "do what I say, not what I do"?
Seriously, if you take the opinions of some to the extreme, that this is medically irresponsible, where do you draw the line? And who gave you the pen to draw with?
I say if you oppose this, you're already probably part of the "save the whales", "Jesus died for us all" or "Burn the Bra" types of organisations and thus your opinions are already void of meaning.
This is science. Accept and move on.
with this and that, we will accomplish to make infertility an inherent disease.
uterus transplants would be particularly useful in Saudi and other Muslim countries where using surrogate mothers is prohibited by Islamic law.
So it is forbidden to use someone else's womb to bear your child. Except when you take that womb and put it inside your own body.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
My Dad is Long John Holmes, and he's donating me his penis.
Dunno about there, but adopting babies almost impossible in US. There simply is not enough to fulfill the need.
I don't know your circumstances, but certainly in the area of the USA in which I live, adoption of babies is common and easy. I would estimate that approximately 5% of the children in the local school system were adopted as infants. It's become commonplace.
haha this is a funny ass perspective did not think of it like that thank you.
I wish your parents had chosen to adopt as well. Why is every freaking out because a human being wants to have her own baby? Ignorant people, these days
From the spacetime topological perspective, would this make her the first human Klein bottle?
I wonder if they will put it back into her mother
"The sisterhood of the traveling uterus"
You should look more at porn. Apparently the "mother with daughter"-fantasy is quite popular among some people.
A whole new meaning to mother ... bah you know the rest!
Her mother produced offspring which can't reproduce, so the daughter decided to try again with the same equipment...
We are going to become a much weaker species.
I'm sorry, but I just had to point out how silly your suggestion was in light of these facts.
We, Norway and Denmark, don't offer our children to outsiders... Why would we? We're wealthy and stable nations.
Norway is even richer than Sweden, and we pay mothers a monthly stipend for each child until it reaches 18 years of age. Not to mention the lump sump of money given at birth ($9000) to help you get started. Oh, if you're a working mother the state offers paid maternity leave for 12-16 months, fathers are also offered paid paternal leave.
In a country where religion is irrelevant, college education is free, teenage pregnancy uncommon, welfare covers cradle-to-grave. Why would we have any children to offer foreigners? This is the same for Denmark as well. The UN however ranks Norway the best country to live in, in general, and specifically for mothers...
Not tablet, but tabloid news. Get it her on /. ????
You do realize transplants of this nature are less of a risk? They're essentially native already...
I believe the doctors know far more about this than you and how it will affect any pregnancy afterwards.
Oh, and she's not "desperate" for a child, it's not unexpected coming from someone with your unkind attitude, she could have bought the services of a surrogate(!).
gross!
I propose a modification for MacBeth:
"I am not a man of a mother born! I was from my grandmother's womb untimely ripped!"
C//
I know this desperate thing to do. There other ways to continuing a family. By having a uterus transplant from your mom make you the mom of your sister/brother? Or is her eggs intact?
I think now would be a good time to begin archiving our important scientific and mathematic discoveries for the future sentient beings that may eventually take our place. Primates, I'm looking at you...
I am developing a language that any intelligent creature grasping basic mathematics should be able to decipher. Previous attempts seem sophomoric to me, and assume too much (low res. raster of a man, child and woman? Don't make me laugh).
In the stone and crystalline tablets we should denounce the perception of the knowledge as coming from a race of Gods, and to this end include the story of our great achievements in gene pool pollution.
Do you have a genetic defect? Welcome to the gene pool! We'll be happy to go through any lengths to ensure you can spread your corrupted genetic sequence on to other lifeforms -- Even if it means growing your offspring in another being, or transplanting wombs!
Natural Selection be damned; We'll do whatever it takes to not discriminate against your deformities in the bedroom.
Of course I would tone down the irony and describe the principals in simple genetic and mathematical terms for our successors. However, I assume my fellow Slashdoters -- being of the same culture and language -- can easily grasp the principals I have sarcastically alluded to above.
This bitch just has to make her contribution to the already lethal human overpopulation problem. At any price too - even stealing the reproductive apparatus from her mother to accomplish this toxic feat. If any baby is born, I do hope it also has her shitty genetics.
Apparently the "mother with daughter"-fantasy is quite popular among some people.
UNMARRIED people.
She isn't your mother-IN-LAW until you marry her daughter.
Assuming this experiment works, who's dna will the resulting eggs have? Will the embryo be her little sister? (My apologies in advance if this is really a stupid question, human reproduction really isn't my subject)
What I meant to say was: "Will the embryo be her little sister/brother?"
Never mind the rampant illiteracy [...] Hell, one deaf school fired it's superintendent for not being deaf from birth.
Illiteracy such as not understanding the appropriate use of possessive and contractions?
Please help metamoderate.
Why should a baby that is a result of your DNA more special than someone else's child?
For the same reason my life is more important than yours. Because its mine.
tsmaeq
'nuff said
That's in the US alone! And this is part of why I am staunchly pro-choice.
The counter argument, of course, is that other, more beneficial genetic information may be contained in otherwise non-optimal DNA sequences. Color blindness is genetic, and even dangerous for primitive Man who might eat a poison red berry mistakenly, but it's not fatal necessarily. If a color blind Neanderthal discovered fire and cooked his food and had a healthier family because of it, his intelligence/ingenuity was more valuable than the color blindness defect. A partial understanding of genetics leads people to believe that what THEY see as a hopelessly flawed DNA sequence (as expressed in an organism w/ one or more defects) has no value to the gene pool in general. Maybe such a defect is the precursor to a slightly tweaked evolution that boost immunity, metabolism, or any number of future things. Maybe it's just a pressure that helps other, unrelated mutations in later generations. The possibilities for any one mutation to be GOOD or BAD are too many to count, and too difficult to predict besides.
Without any judgment of the woman in TFA, perhaps she's got really great genes otherwise whose benefit more than makes up for a reproductive disorder. And, on top of that, perhaps the human evolutionary track is directed by more than just DNA now, and includes memes, culture, and macro scale things based on people and not DNA exclusively. Without being able to see the entire human race with resolution down the the individual A's, T's, C's and G's, you're wildly speculating at best, and being judgmental and self important at the worse.
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." -Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Fuck your bullshit eugenics. We are, at most, four or five generations away from being able to write human DNA directly, and when that happens we can do what we want right away rather than waiting for millions of years. Evolution is obsolete.
I wonder what you'll say when the "Mother donates vagina to daughter" article comes along.