--- description: Four women born without uterus or who had it removed for health reasons have received embryos title: Women With Womb Transplants Are Trying to Get Pregnant With IVF image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc99a013334ac07c/698683bc3bc99922b71a2233/463656951.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Infertility](/tag/infertility/) ## Infertility Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Women With Womb Transplants Are Trying to Get Pregnant With IVF by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 3, 2014 7:18 PM CUT  Pregnant Belly Pregnant BellyAnnie Otzen—Getty Images/Flickr RF by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 3, 2014 7:18 PM CUT Swedish doctors report that four women who underwent womb transplants have received embryos in an attempt to get pregnant. The women are the recipients of wombs from their mothers or other relatives, as part of an experiment to see whether a womb transplant can yield a successful pregnancy, reports [_The Washington Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/4-women-with-new-wombs-are-trying-to-get-pregnant/2014/03/03/bffba46e-a2c7-11e3-b865-38b254d92063%5Fstory.html "undefined"). The embryos are the result of in vitro fertilization before the women had their transplants. In January, the same team of doctors [successfully transplanted](http://healthland.time.com/2014/01/13/swedish-doctors-successfully-transplant-wombs-into-9-women/ "undefined") wombs into nine women in their thirties who were either born without a uterus or had it removed for health reasons. Other research groups are attempting similar surgeries to see if transplanted wombs could help these women have children. So far no womb transplants have resulted in a birth. The researchers do not expect every woman to carry to term, but are hopeful that a few will give birth. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/11935/women-with-womb-transplants-are-trying-to-get-pregnant-with-ivf/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/11935/women-with-womb-transplants-are-trying-to-get-pregnant-with-ivf/"},"headline":"Women With Womb Transplants Are Trying to Get Pregnant With IVF","datePublished":"2014-03-03T19:18:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:33:15.655Z","description":"Four women born without uterus or who had it removed for health reasons have received embryos","url":"https://time.com/11935/women-with-womb-transplants-are-trying-to-get-pregnant-with-ivf/","keywords":["Infertility","Family & Parenting","Pregnant"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc99a013334ac07c/698683bc3bc99922b71a2233/463656951.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc99a013334ac07c/698683bc3bc99922b71a2233/463656951.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pregnant Belly","caption":"Pregnant Belly","creditText":"Annie Otzen—Getty Images/Flickr RF","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/infertility/","name":"Infertility"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/11935/women-with-womb-transplants-are-trying-to-get-pregnant-with-ivf/","name":"Women With Womb Transplants Are Trying to Get Pregnant With IVF"}}]}] ```