A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb.
She has become the world's first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant, doctors said.
The 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s.
"It was breathtaking. I think all of us felt that," Liza Johannesson, the surgeon, said in a video supplied by her university on Saturday. "It was like having your own child, actually, it was the same feeling. No one could really believe it."
The healthy baby boy was born last month at the University of Gothenburg's hospital. Both mother and infant are doing well.
Weighing 1.775kgs, the baby was born by Caesarean section at 31 weeks after the mother developed pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy condition, according to the medical journal The Lancet.
Because of a genetic condition called Rokitansky syndrome, the new mother was born without a womb, although her ovaries were intact.
The identity of the couple in Sweden has not been released, but it is known the mother still had functioning ovaries.
The couple went through IVF to produce 11 embryos, which were frozen. Doctors at the University of Gothenburg then performed the womb transplant.
The donor was a 61-year-old family friend who had gone through the menopause seven years earlier.
Drugs to suppress the immune system were needed to prevent the womb being rejected.
A year after the transplant, doctors decided they were ready to implant one of the frozen embryos and a pregnancy ensued.
The baby was born prematurely, almost 32 weeks into the pregnancy, after the mother developed pre-eclampsia and the baby's heart rate became abnormal.
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