CLEVELAND — The recipient of the nation’s first uterus transplant said Monday that she prayed for years to be able to bear a child and is grateful to the deceased donor’s family and surgeons who have given her that chance.
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic said Monday that the 26-year-old woman is recovering well after receiving the uterus late last month. The experimental surgery is part of a new frontier in transplantation that, if it works, might be an alternative for some of the thousands of women unable to have children because they were born without a uterus or lost it to disease.
The woman, identified only as Lindsey to protect her family’s privacy, said she is a mother to three “beautiful little boys” adopted through foster care and that she was told when she was 16 that she wouldn’t be able to bear children.
“From that moment on, I’ve prayed that God would allow me the opportunity to experience pregnancy,” she said.
