Overview

• Grace Davidson, 36, became the first woman in the UK to give birth after a womb transplant, delivering baby Amy Isabel on February 27, 2025.
• The transplant, performed in 2023, involved a living donation from her sister, Amy Purdie, in an eight-hour surgery.
• Davidson, diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, underwent IVF to conceive using one of her frozen embryos after the transplant.
• The procedure is the result of 25 years of pioneering research led by Prof Richard Smith, with global advancements seeing over 100 transplants and 50 births worldwide.
• This achievement offers new hope for women with uterine deficiencies, with additional transplants underway and more planned in the UK.