{"id":237565,"date":"2026-02-24T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=237565"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:41:54","slug":"woman-in-britain-gives-birth-after-womb-transplant-from-deceased-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/237565\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in Britain gives birth after womb transplant from deceased donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A woman has become the first in the United Kingdom to give birth following a womb transplant from a deceased donor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2026\/02\/24\/uk-welcomes-first-baby-born-after-womb-transplant-from-dead-donor-in-huge-milestone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking womb transplant from a deceased donor is the first of its kind in the country and only the third ever carried out in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Bell, who was born without a womb, delivered a healthy baby boy, Hugo Richard Norman Powell, by caesarean section.<\/p>\n<p>Following the transplant surgery, Bell underwent IVF treatment and embryo transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Bell said she hopes the breakthrough will help others in future: &ldquo;My hope is that one day this option to motherhood will become much more accessible, so others may have the same chance I have been given.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has become the first in the United Kingdom to give birth following a womb transplant from a deceased donor, Euronews writes. The groundbreaking womb transplant from a deceased donor is the first of its kind in the country and only the third ever carried out in Europe. Grace Bell, who was born without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":237513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237573,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237565\/revisions\/237573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}