In 2023, a healthy baby boy was brought to term and delivered through caesarean via the country’s first live uterus transplant.
Conducted in the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, the 31-year-old received donation from her 53-year-old mother after a previous hysterectomy due to haemorrhage.
The procedure is one of around 40 performed in the world and represents a milestone in reproductive medicine, offering potential new options for those with uterine factor infertility.
Two years on, researchers from the Royal Hospital for Women, the Prince of Wales Hospital, and Westmead Hospital in Sydney have shared their findings from the procedure in the Medical Journal of Australia.
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Produced By: Tia Bailey
Featured In Story: Associate Professor Rebecca Deans – Lecturer with the School of Women’s & Children’s Health University NSW Sydney and Gynaecologist, , and
First aired on The Wire, Thursday 23 October 2025