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Turkey: world's first uterus recipient gives birth

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Lamahaha · 02/07/2020 13:07

www.aa.com.tr/en/health/turkey-worlds-first-uterus-recipient-gives-birth/1891233?fbclid=IwAR1vN0VdKB2fBRC3dIGJhRuHqRb5nvfK-Qqkq0DazlQpXkCnAnxt3EDsnP4

After the birth the uterus was removed so that she would not have to continue taking medication. However, the medication couldn't have been healthy for the baby, a boy.

This still doesn't mean than men can give birth. It's not just the uterus, it's the whole system.

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Lamahaha · 02/07/2020 13:55

Off topic: I just noticed the "OP's posts: see all" link at the bottom of my comment. Is this a new thing, or has it always been there and I've been blind all along?

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Lamahaha · 02/07/2020 13:52

@IAintentDead

Bit of brief research shows it wasn't the first birth from a uterus implant. And it doesn't say whether she was born female without a uterus or born male.

Very suspect ethically transplanting a uterus into a 14 yr old born male.

What an odd ridiculous comment. If she had been "born male" this would have been so revolutionary it would have made international news and transactivists would have never let us forget. The article says "woman", not "man". Clear enough.
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TheProdigalKittensReturn · 02/07/2020 13:44

And it doesn't say whether she was born female without a uterus or born male.

If she'd been born male there would be no baby. It's a transplant, not magic.

IAintentDead · 02/07/2020 13:42

To date, approximately 50 have been performed around the world, resulting in 16 live births. With the start of the UNTIL (Uterus Transplantation for Uterine Factor Infertility) trial in late 2017, Penn Medicine has brought this option to the East Coast … and is opening the door for further advances.29 Apr 2019

IAintentDead · 02/07/2020 13:42

Bit of brief research shows it wasn't the first birth from a uterus implant. And it doesn't say whether she was born female without a uterus or born male.

Very suspect ethically transplanting a uterus into a 14 yr old born male.

IAintentDead · 02/07/2020 13:38

It says she was 'given' the uterus in 2011 and she's 23 now, so when she was 14, but that it was removed after she had given birth.

All seems very strange. If it had to be removed I suspect there were other issues than that she just didn't 'need' it anymore.

Was it just the uterus she had implanted? Does she have ovaries? Was it her own egg? Was a foetus implanted or was the fertilisation in utero? Was it (I suspect caesarian) vaginal or surgical birth?

So many questions.

DuDuDuLangaLangaBingBong · 02/07/2020 13:17

There have been previous live births after transplant - generally in women with MRKH syndrome, so women with their own working ovaries - I think the above story refers to a women who had quite a gap between the transplant surgery and the pregnancy? So the first transplant but not the first birth?

Here’s a previous birth story:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31766-5/fulltext

V different to trying to retrofit a uterus into a male body, I agree!

I think there is a significant body of evidence re: anti rejection drugs on developing foetuses due to pregnancy in women who have survived other solid organ transplants - no brain energy to look that up today though.

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