Baby born from dead donor womb transplant in UK first

Blindness is a disability, childlessness isn't

Can you explain why you think it’s fucking ridiculous @JoeSikoraTommysStory ?

Cornea transplants don't save lives.
Womb transplants are not ridiculous.

Good grief

For all the pps saying it’s no different to other transplants it actually is; other transplants are to save lives.
This is not a life saving operation it’s fucking ridiculous.

Nurtured in a lab???

Who's going to do the nurturing? (Remembers Rumanian orphanages, Ireland's historical wash house/mother and baby homes, Australian experiments on rearing "half caste" Aboriginal children)
shudders

I offered to consider donating my womb, as a living donor, to someone once. I didn't say I'd do it, I said I'd consider doing it and was willing to find out more. They had initially asked about me being a surrogate, which I declined.

I struggle with my iron, so losing my uterus seemed like a potential help to me. I'm not sure this is something that is a good use of medical resources but, if they're doing them and my close relative was asking, I was willing to discuss it.

Some people just hate scientific advancements which give women more choice. That’s why it’s only ever a problem when a woman becomes a mother at 48 and never when a man becomes a father at the same age. Despite women having a higher life expectancy than men.

Misogynistic bollocks that can be swiftly ignored, basically.

Coming no doubt from a fertile woman with kids! You have no fucking idea! Try having a shred of empathy!

Here’s hoping! I can’t wait for advances in science to relieve women of pregnancy and childbirth (who want it, of course). It’s not just the 9 months, full recovery can take years.

I am full of joy for the happy couple.
We have kidney transplants, cochlear implants, so I see this as another way to help people to have fuller lives.

Both bad.

"Each womb transplant costs about £30,000 and is fully funded by the charity Womb Transplant UK, including payment to the NHS for theatre time and the patient's stay in a ward." Honestly, I think this is grotesque.

Can't we just accept that, sometimes, women are infertile and can't have a baby?

Rather this then surrogacy.

@Ihavelostthegame "No child consents to their existence or birth whatever the circumstances. And whether they are happy or unhappy about it doesn’t change that."

Wow, okay. If only I'd known it could all have been perfect.

I feel the same way about this as I do other transplants.

So because you had an unhappy childhood that automatically means children born in a completely different set of circumstances to you must automatically feel the same way as you.
No child consents to their existence or birth whatever the circumstances. And whether they are happy or unhappy about it doesn’t change that.

As someone who was let down for over a decade by the NHS and as a direct result developed endometrial cancer and had to have a hysterectomy in my early 30’s if it were an option for me I might seriously consider it. I was on the fence about having children prior to diagnosis but always leaned on the would probably have kids. Having it brutally ripped away from me and at a time where a significant number of friends and colleagues were having kids was horrendous. And not at all acknowledged by anyone around me. To be given a second chance would be incredible.

Ask a baby who has been born into such grim medical chaos how they feel. I only know being born of two consenting adults, and even then it was an unhappy outcome.

Frankly I would rather see women using transplanted wombs to grow their children than see women using surrogate wombs.

We’ll wipe ourselves out from diseases and lack of food caused by microplastic pollution before we get to that point.

I don’t have any issues taking a donor organ if I needed one and someone else was willing to donate. It’s no different to a lung or kidney transplant IMO.

That is horrendous.

You know baby listens to your heartbeat, processes the nutrients you eat, is exposed to the pathogens in your environment, learns your voice, and the accent and sounds of their dialect before they are even born.

Let’s all just be born as vessels with a huge empty unexplainable void in our souls and sent to the ai workhouse to process error logs.