--- title: Womb Transplant Sweden: Woman Delivers First Baby After Operation description: A 36-year-old woman who received a womb transplant has given birth to a healthy baby, the first birth after such an operation. canonical: https://time.com/3462338/baby-womb-transplant/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-03T21:01:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:35:10.451Z article:section: Health og:title: Womb Transplant Sweden: Woman Delivers First Baby After Operation og:description: A 36-year-old woman who received a womb transplant has given birth to a healthy baby, the first birth after such an operation. og:url: https://time.com/3462338/baby-womb-transplant/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Womb Transplant Sweden: Woman Delivers First Baby After Operation twitter:description: A 36-year-old woman who received a womb transplant has given birth to a healthy baby, the first birth after such an operation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Woman Delivers Baby After Womb Transplant  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 3, 2014 9:01 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 3, 2014 9:01 PM UTC A 36-year-old woman who received a womb transplant has given birth to a healthy baby, a Swedish doctor announced according to a report in the [_Associated Press_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8308104bee9a4264952415f34fd7a632/world-first-baby-born-woman-who-got-new-womb). The birth marks the world’s first successful birth following such an operation. “The baby is fantastic,” said Mats Brannstrom, the doctor who delivered the baby. “But it is even better to see the joy in the parents and how happy he made them.” Brannstorm, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF, has been working on womb transplants for the past two years. He transplanted wombs in nine women, but two needed to have the organs removed following complications. At least two other women with pregnancies have passed the 25 week mark, he said. \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8308104bee9a4264952415f34fd7a632/world-first-baby-born-woman-who-got-new-womb)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3462338/baby-womb-transplant/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3462338/baby-womb-transplant/"},"headline":"Woman Delivers Baby After Womb Transplant","datePublished":"2014-10-03T21:01:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:35:10.451Z","description":"It's the first successful birth after such an operation","url":"https://time.com/3462338/baby-womb-transplant/","keywords":["Healthcare","Pregnancy","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/healthcare/","name":"Healthcare"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3462338/baby-womb-transplant/","name":"Woman Delivers Baby After Womb Transplant"}}]}] ```