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After a successful uterus transplant, a woman from Vadodara has given birth to a baby girl. The baby girl was born prematurely, almost 32 weeks into the pregnancy at 12.12am on Thursday. She weighed 1,450 grams at birth.\nThe woman from Vadodara had undergone uterus transplant 17 months ago in Pune’s Galaxy Care Hospital. She was the second women to undergo such a surgery, where the first uterus transplant was conducted only a day before than hers. The womb was donated by her 45-year-old mother. The woman was under observation ever since the pregnancy was confirmed.
\nA team led by Dr Shailesh Puntambekar, transplant surgeon of Galaxy care hospital performed the delivery procedure.
\n“Both baby and mother are now doing well. It was a pretty tough journey over the last one year, but we now have a healthy baby from the pregnancy post-transplant. The child will tell the world and the country the fantastic story of her birth,\u201d Dr Puntambekar said.
\nThe doctors were planning to conduct C section delivery on November. But the mother-to-be started suffering from high levels of blood sugar and blood pressure, hence the doctors decided to conduct an early delivery.
\nDr Neeta Warty, another laparoscopic surgeon who had transplanted the donated womb into the Vadodara woman last year said: “Moreover, tests have indicated that the placenta (an organ that connects the fetus to the uterine wall and provides nourishment) is maturing faster than the fetus.\u201d
\nDr Shailesh Puntambekar, who began the womb transplant in the country has completed six transplants so far. \u201cNerves aren\u2019t transferred as part of the womb transplant, so the women will not suffer labour pains,” he said.
\nDr Shailesh Puntambekar and Dr Neeta Warty conducted India\u2019s first womb transplants on May 18 and 19, 2017. Though Sweden and the US have already carried out Uterus transplants, India is unique because both the uterus transplants were done laparoscopically.
\nWhile Dr Puntambekar retrieved the uteruses from the donors using laparoscopic surgery, Dr Warty transplanted them laparoscopically.
\nThe Hospital considers the birth as a milestone in the country’s medical achievements. This is the twelfth baby in the world to be born through a uterus transplant. Nine such babies were born in Sweden, two in the United States and now this is the first one in all of Asia.<\/p>\n