Mom Plans to Donate Womb to Daughter

A 56-year-old mother hopes to have her uterus implanted into her daughter by next year so the 25-year-old can have a baby, The Daily Mail reported



Sara Ottosson, a biology teacher in Sweden, was born without reproductive organs due to a rare syndrome, but she wants to have a baby. Her mother, Eva Ottosson, of Nottingham, England, is hoping to give her the same womb she carried her in.
“I’m a biology teacher and it’s just an organ like any other organ,” Sara Ottosson told to the Daily Telegraph. “It would mean the world to me for this to work and to have children.”
The surgery would happen at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden, where doctors have been looking at potential patients for the surgery.
Both mother and daughter have been tested and are awaiting a decision on their eligibility for the transplant.
The medical team’s leader, Dr. Mat Brannstrom, said the surgery is much more complicated than a kidney, liver or heart transplant.
"The difficulty with it is avoiding hemorrhage and making sure you have long enough blood vessels to connect the womb," he told the Telegraph.

Another womb transplant took place in Saudi Arabia in 2000 when a 26-year-old woman received a donated womb, but it had to be removed after 99 days due to complications. Scientists in Sweden, where the procedure will take place, think that medical knowledge has come far enough to do the transplant successfully now, although it remains an extremely complex procedure.