Swedish doctor says 4 of 9 women who received transplanted wombs are trying to get pregnant

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FILE - In this April 4, 2012 photo made available by the University of Goteborg in Sweden, the Swedish research team practices before the operations to transplant wombs at the Sahlgrenska Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden. Swedish doctor Mats Brannstrom says four Swedish women who received transplanted wombs have had embryos transferred into them in an attempt to get pregnant. Since 2012, nine women have received wombs donated by relatives in an experimental procedure designed to test whether it’s possible to transfer a uterus into a woman so she can give birth to her own child. The women had in-vitro fertilization before the transplant, using their own eggs to make embryos. (AP Photo/University of Goteborg, Johan Wingborg, File)

LONDON – A Swedish doctor says four Swedish women who have received transplanted wombs have had embryos transferred into them in an attempt to get pregnant.

Since 2012, nine women have received wombs donated by relatives in an experimental procedure designed to test whether it’s possible to transfer a uterus into a woman so she can give birth to her own child. The women had in-vitro fertilization before the transplant, using their own eggs.

Dr. Mats Brannstrom at the University of Goteburg, who is leading the research, says “this is still at the testing stage but I am optimistic.”

He would not say Monday whether any of the women are pregnant. Of the nine women who got transplanted wombs, two had to have them removed because of complications.

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