First Womb Transplant Recipient Gives Birth to Healthy Baby

(South China Morning Post, January 24, 2019)

Yang Hua who three years ago became the first woman in China to undergo a uterus transplant (donated by her own mother, in November 2015) has reached another medical milestone, by giving birth to a healthy baby boy. She was almost 34 weeks pregnant when doctors delivered the child by caesarean section. Despite his early arrival, the baby weighed in at a respectable 2 kilogram and measured 48 centimeter in length. The new baby, who is currently being cared for in an incubator, is the first in China and 14th in the world to have been born from a transplanted uterus.