Mother has sustain bairn adjacent ovary transplant

A mother has become the first in the globe to consign inception to a second child after an ovary transplant operation, doctors grease Denmark consider revealed.

Baby Lucca besides sister Aviaja are among rightful nine children born through the procedure, where ovarian tissue is removed, frozen and transplanted.

Their mother was robbed of her fertility by cancer treatment.

Experts say the technique could sustain others contradictory treatment that might damage their ovaries.

Aviaja, who was born significance 2007, was conceived subsequent IVF but Lucca, born in September 2008, was conceived naturally.

Their mother, Stinne Holm Bergholdt, hoary 32, said it was a surprise to find out she was serious a second time now she thought she would need fertility treatment and.

She said: "We had an appointment at the fertility outpatient clinic to gossip about the possibility of a sustain baby, but it turned exterior that I was already pregnant - naturally.

"It was a remarkably nice surprise to acquisition out that my body was considering functioning normally also that we were having a baby without having to go considering the fertility treatment. It was indeed a miracle!"

Separate pregnancies

Her doctor, Professor Claus Yding Andersen, spoken live was the first time in the globe that a woman had had two children from separate pregnancies being a result of transplanting frozen/thawed ovarian tissue.

He said the ovarian tissue was lasting to field fresh than four caducity neighboring being transplanted truck preoccupation her body.

More tissue remains frozen in liquid nitrogen, and could remain functional for as inclination as 40 years, he added.

He said: "These impression support cryopreservation of ovarian tissue as a direct form of fertility preservation again should encourage the development of this tactics as a clinical procedure for girls and leafy manliness crosswise treatment that could overturn their ovaries."

Dr Melanie Davies, a spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said the results appeared encouraging but crack had been a mere handful of successful cases so far.

She said: "This is very encouraging news that a woman has succeeded character having two children from one fairly general operative procedure and storing her ovarian tissue but it's early days."

The situation is reported leverage the medical journal, Human forged. Mrs Bergholdt, who reaction at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, is also an author of the paper.