A feast for the eyes!

We're used to life-saving transplants of organs such as hearts, livers and kidneys, faces and other body parts. Womb transplants —1st major experiment to test whether women with transplanted wombs can give birth.

Swedish doctors have completed a pioneer project successfully transplanting wombs to nine women. This amazing new kind of surgery is geared towards helping women who were born without a uterus or had it removed because of cervical cancer.

Nine women have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives. All of them are currently ovulating which is a good sign that they can give birth to their own children.

There have been two previous attempts to transplant a womb — in Turkey and Saudi Arabia — but both failed to produce babies.

Saudi Arabia is the first country in the world to have carried out womb transplant in the year 2000 but the recipient recorded blood clot and so the womb was removed. Turkey was the 2nd country to try the womb transplant were they took womb from dead people and transplanted into this women but the process also failed as the women lost their babies after 2 months of conception. England is preparing to also carry out the process.

Head surgeon for this process Dr Mats Brannstrom said this is a research study. It could lead to the women having children, but there are no guarantees.

Good news... fingers crossed!