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- October 1, 2019
1st American moms have transplanted uterus births
"I hope other women can look at [my child] and feel hope."
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\"I feel like such a small part but it's amazing to have been given this opportunity, the fact that my daughter is here, I got to successfully bring her into the world and it feels amazing,\" Meave said. \"It still doesn't feel real.\"
Researchers at Baylor University Medical Center have completed 20 uterus transplants as part of this trial -- making it the largest program in the world.
Baylor said its goal is to be able to offer the procedure \"to any woman with uterine factor infertility.\"
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Dr. Giuliano Testa, principal investigator of the uterus transplant clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center, and Dr. Liza Johannesson, gynecologic surgeon and medical director of uterus transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center, participated in a press conference Tuesday at Baylor Scott & White Health where they sat beside Edwards, Meave and their children.
Testa said the team hopes to get \"better and better\" with this new innovation.
\"We went from a rough start to a 90% success, so we are really very confident now that we can offer this to possibly as many 16-year-old's as needed,\" Testa said. \"There were hundreds of women who stepped forward, wanting to participate in the trial and wanting to donate a uterus...they were instrumental to allow us to come today, to be able to be here today.
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\"We have a tremendous respect for women in general [who] have the courage to undergo something like this,\" he added.
Johannesson chimed in, \"The first birth is always fantastic, but now the more births we have, the more we show that this is not something that you do in one institution in Europe where it started. This is something that we can actually reproduce. We can do it. We have several babies here now and this is something that we can offer to more women out there.\"
\"My hope is that 16-year-old girl will know that there is options for her if she would choose to become a mother,\" she added.
The families of the first and second births via uterus transplant (in 2017 and 2018) chose to stay anonymous, but Edwards and Meave wanted to share their experiences in hopes to inspire others who struggle with infertility, they said.
\"I hope other women can look at [my child] and feel hope because unfortunately infertility, it can make you feel extremely hopeless,\" Meave said.
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Edwards agreed, she wants her birth story to be a symbol of hope for people hoping to become parents.
\"She's an inspiration,\" Edwards said of her daughter. \"I fought for her and I hope she continues to fight for anything in this world that she wants.\"
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