WHEN Malin Stenberg heard this week that surgeons had carried out the UK’s first womb transplant, a smile spread across her face. In the operation, at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, a woman of …
consultant, said: “I wish her every success on her journey to motherhood. It has been a wonderful time for us.”Miracle son Vincent is now nine years oldMalin’s womb donor, family friend Ewa Rosen, now 69, has remained close to the family, and Malin said: “Ewa actually lives on the next street from us.
As Malin got older, her desire to become a mum grew and the thought that it might not happen was “very painful”. She said: “It was like a wall, something never talked about.”, and knew she wanted to settle down with him.“It was very intimate to talk about things like that but we had the conversation pretty early in our relationship.”But Malin recalled he was very supportive, and she said: “He’s fantastic in that way.“But he told me, ‘We will have a family one way or another’.
But they then opted to go public to help raise awareness and give hope to other infertile women — and even published a book about their experiences.She added: “We are forever grateful to Ewa. Every birthday and“She is the mother of two boys and we have a running joke with our friend that Vincent was in the same womb as him and his brother.”
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