Woman gives birth from a womb transplant performed using a robot

A Swedish woman has hit a world record after she becomes the first in the world to conceive and give birth to a baby boy from a womb transplant performed using a robot.

The unidentified woman gave birth to a healthy boy weighing (2.9kg) via a Caesarean section after 36 weeks.

It all started when the woman had a donor womb transplanted into her body at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in October 2017, becoming the first such procedure in the world.

Ten months after the transplant the doctors an embryo, created through fertility treatment before she underwent the life-changing transplant, was inserted into her new uterus

Doctors were able to confirm the pregnancy a few weeks later.

The transplants involved surgically removing the womb of one woman and implanting it into one who cannot have a baby naturally.

The medics revealed the woman and baby suffered no complications, and that the C-section was planned and not an emergency.

However, the latest birth is the first to have been born through a womb transplant that used robots.

Five other women have undergone womb transplants through robotic surgery at the University of Gothenburg. However, none of them have yet to become pregnant.

Doctors said using robots for the life-changing procedure has ‘a great future’ and makes the surgery less damaging for donors.

The robot is controlled by two surgeons who use joysticks which convert their movements into millimetre-precise motions in the robot arms.

This allows the procedure to be done through five 1cm-wide holes in the donor’s body – unlike much bigger cuts needed by human surgeons.

The doctors said this leads to the patients losing less blood and spending less time in hospital after donating their womb.

The other babies born after uterus transplants have been in Sweden, with others in the US, Brazil, Serbia and India.

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