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Mother with womb transplant says risk paid off

This April 11, 2014 photo made available by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden shows Mats Brannstrom and his team performing a womb transplant. In a medical first, a woman in Sweden has given birth after receiving a womb transplant, the doctor who performed the pioneering procedure said Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely but healthy last month, and mother and child are now at home and doing well. The identities of the woman and her husband were not disclosed. "The baby is fantastic," said Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF who led the research and delivered the baby with the help of his wife, a midwife. "But it is even better to see the joy in the parents and how happy he made them." (AP Photo/University of Gothenburg, Johan Wingborg) This April 11, 2014 photo made available by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden shows Mats Brannstrom and his team performing a womb transplant. In a medical first, a woman in Sweden has given birth after receiving a womb transplant, the doctor who performed the pioneering procedure said Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely but healthy last month, and mother and child are now at home and doing well. The identities of the woman and her husband were not disclosed. "The baby is fantastic," said Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF who led the research and delivered the baby with the help of his wife, a midwife. "But it is even better to see the joy in the parents and how happy he made them." (AP Photo/University of Gothenburg, Johan Wingborg)

By Associated Press October 4, 2014 1 min read

LONDON (AP) – For the world’s first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb, only a victorious name would do. His mother says that is why his parents named him “Vincent,” meaning “to conquer.”

In an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, the 36-year-old Swedish mother said she learned she had no womb when she was 15 and was devastated.

More than a decade later, she heard about research being led by Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF.

The woman, who asked not to be identified, said: “Mats told us there were no guarantees, but my partner and I, maybe we like to take risks, we thought this was the perfect idea.”