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A woman who was born without a uterus has shared how the UK’s first womb transplant has given her a ‘glimmer of hope’ that she can one day carry her own child.
Hannah Vaughan, who lives in Cheshire, found out that she had Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome when she was 16 — a condition that means she doesn’t have a womb so is unable to become pregnant.
The 24-year-old said the diagnosis left her feeling ‘quite isolated’ and ‘very different’.
However, surgeons in the UK yesterday revealed that they had performed the nation’s first womb transplant in a 34-year-old woman with MRKH.
The social care worker said she is ‘unbelievably happy’ that the groundbreaking procedure went well and that she would ‘not even think twice’ about undergoing the same op.
Miss Vaughan said that receiving her diagnosis of MRKH was ‘a nice feeling at that age because I was still becoming me and have always wanted to have children’.
Miss Vaughan said: ‘Even though I had lots of people around me, I still felt isolated.
‘At that age, I thought I could put it to the back of my mind a little bit because I’m not ready just yet, but at the same time — it still affected me every day and I had counselling at the time.’
The condition affects about one in every 5,000 women.
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