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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Nurse hopes to have world's first baby from a transplant womb donated by her mother

Mail Online

An intensive care nurse is so desperate to have a baby she has decided to undergo a womb transplant from her own mother.

It means that should the operation be successful her child would be born from the same uterus from which she herself was born.

Melinda Arnold, 34, from Melbourne in Australia, was born without a womb but has ovaries that produce eggs.

Her mother's age has not been disclosed, however she would only be accepted as a viable womb donor if she was pre-menopausal. The average age for a woman to reach the menopause is 52.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2050401/Married-nurse-hopes-worlds-baby-womb-transplant-donated-MOTHER.html#ixzz1bBRDrYZB


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