Mother with a Transplanted Uterus Delivers Healthy Baby

Every year, thousands of births are recorded in Epic—that’s thousands of babies and parents with unique and special stories of how their families came to be. In February, a baby girl’s birth at Baylor University Medical Center was a milestone in an especially remarkable story: she became only the second baby born in the United States to a mother with a transplanted uterus. The first, a boy born in November, was also delivered at Baylor.

Baylor University Medical Center, which is a part of Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas, is the first organization in the United States and the second in the world to successfully perform a uterus transplant. Since their clinical trial began in 2016, they’ve completed four successful transplants and have delivered two healthy babies to mothers with a transplanted uterus. When the current trial is completed, Baylor hopes to begin a second trial for 10 more women and to open up the procedure’s availability to all women who want and can pay for it.

In the United States, about 1 in 5,000 women are born with ovaries and no uterus. Though the condition is rare and non-life-threatening, Baylor believes in the value of devoting significant resources to address it. To the women who thought they’d never have a choice of how to start their families—and to their partners—the availability of the procedure is truly life-changing. “It still hits me a few times a day that I’m not dreaming anymore,” said the father of the girl born in February. “It’s just crazy. It’s worth it.”

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