First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A healthy baby girl has been born using a womb transplanted from a dead person. The 10-hour transplant operation -- and later fertility treatment -- took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2016. The mother, 32, was born without a womb. There have been 39 womb transplants using a live donor, including mothers donating their womb to their daughter, resulting in 11 babies. But the 10 previous transplants from a dead donor have failed or resulted in miscarriage. In this case, reported in The Lancet, the womb donor was a mother of three in her mid-40s who died from bleeding on the brain. The recipient reportedly had Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, which affects about one in every 4,500 women and results in the vagina and uterus (womb) failing to form properly.

The baby girl was delivered by Caesarean section on December 15, 2017, weighing 6 pounds (2.5kg).

Comments

Could vs. Should

[rmdingler]

Perhaps and only maybe this is one of those things that we do without a great amount of consideration if we should?!?!

I know the earth is critically short of humans, but marketing dead wombs to people with broken wombs seems a bit macabre... how does the doc begin that conversation?

Re:Could vs. Should

[rmdingler]

Perhaps you should not be so judgemental. The mother and baby are both doing fine, so no harm was done.

Perhaps. Yet, perhaps, three babies were autumn born to a mother who had access to resources that could only provide for the mother and one offspring this year... many maternal mammals have to choose a child to save, and two to recycle, to make the harsh winter.

Perhaps the harsh winter is upon the humans and they're not quite aware of it as their lowly cousins.