Woman Gives Birth After Receiving Uterus Transplant Share This article The birth of a child is a special event, and for Mallory and Nick, their son also made history. That's because his arrival marked the first time a uterus transplant recipient delivered a healthy baby outside of a clinical trial. "For us, this was, this is what I felt like.
.. I knew that I was supposed to do this," Mallory said.
The transplant and later the birth both took place at The University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center , under the direction of Paige Porrett, M.D., Ph.
D, who began the fourth uterus transplant program in the United States and is recognized as a national and international leader in the field of uterus transplantation. "My level of enthusiasm is over the moon, if that's a way we can rank it," Dr. Porrett told CBN News.
At age 17, Mallory received the devastating news that she was born without a uterus and would not be able to experience pregnancy. That changed, however, when she and her husband learned of Mallory being approved to receive a uterus transplant. "We were both in shock," Mallory said.
"Yeah, I guess that's the best way of putting it," her husband Nick added. Dr. Porrett said uterus transplantation can be an enormous blessing to couples.
"They get to experience the gestation together. And there are many individuals who would argue," she said, "where having a child begins essentially with that conception event, or the baby growing inside the uterus." While about one-.