Womb transplant: First children born in Germany

you were born without a uterus, but two women were able to bring in Germany as a healthy child to the world, thanks to transplants. But these are controversial.

Veronika Simon, SWR

The first transplanted uterus in Germany a woman was used, was missing this Organ from birth. Her mother donated the 25-Year-old her uterus. The second uterus recipient was sticks with eggs, but no Uterus to the world.

In uterus donations are mostly organs from living donors, often Relatives of the recipient. Only in one case in the year 2018 gynecologists have transplanted the Organ of a brain-dead donor.

Newborn baby in the incubator in the women's hospital of Tübingen,

The patients in Tübingen eggs from their eggs were taken from sticks, with the partner's semen artificially inseminated in the Uterus are used. So you could be pregnant. Two and a half years passed from the first transplant until the birth of the child.

Particularly critical Phase after Transplantation was. Even if the body of a Relatives came, the risk of rejection is great.

After the procedure, you must take the women treated like any organ donation to drugs that suppress the immune system. So it should be prevented that the foreign body is repelled. These drugs must also be taken during pregnancy. Negative consequences for the child should not have to take immunosuppressive drugs, however. The experiences of patients with transplanted show kidney.

Scientifically, the engagement is not yet established. The participating research groups collect and publish their data.

The inventor of the art, Mats Brändström from Sweden. In 2013, he performed the first uterus transplant in a woman in Sweden. In ten of the transplants in the world, he was also in Tübingen.

Ethical discussed, the engagement hardly, criticized Professor Dr. Sigrid Graumann. She is a member of the ethics Council, and deals with ethical questions of reproductive medicine and its social consequences:

"I think there is a problem, to do everything that is medically possible, to meet children's wishes. It is not life-threatening diseases."

Especially critical, she sees that in this procedure, a third party could be at risk. The healthy donor under a major Operation draw and the child could be harmed in the event of rejection of the transplanted organ.

Professor Sara Brucker

Professor Sara Brucker of the women's hospital of Tübingen has conducted the transplantations in Germany and the children cut later brought to your Team by the Emperor on the world. Also encourages discussing uterus transplants to the public. A uterus, per se, is not an Organ you need to live. But:

"A desire to have children and the desire to become a mother, is a very natural need. And as in Germany, surrogacy is not possible, it left us with only the possibility of a uterus transplant."

as soon As five of the children are come to such a transplant, a healthy in Tübingen to the world, want to be Doctors for the time being, no more uterus transplant. You then want to apply a uterine transplant center and build.