Déborah, the first patient to receive a uterus transplant in France, gave birth to her second child on February 17. It is a little girl, named Maxine.
The press release from the Foch hospital in Suresnes, in the Hauts-de-Seine, fell on Friday. It reports the birth – on February 17 – of the second baby resulting from the first uterus transplant performed in France. The happy mother, Déborah, gave birth to a second little girl, named Maxine, two years after the first, Misha, and four years after having benefited from this uterine transplant.
Maxine arrived a little early. The birth indeed took place after “35 weeks”, that is to say eight months and three weeks therefore. It took place in “very good conditions”, notes the hospital which however announces a featherweight of “2 kilos 550”.
15 years of research
The establishment of course welcomes the event, and extends the congratulations to the team led by Professor Jean-Marc Ayoubi, who made such a transplant possible after 15 years of research work.
The Foch hospital said more about Deborah’s medical career. She suffered from “uterine agenesis due to MRKH syndrome” – which affects one in 4,500 women -, and “had benefited in 2019 from a uterus transplant from her mother”.
Since then, the team led by Jean-Marc Ayoubi performed the same operation on a second patient, suffering from the same disease as Déborah, in September 2022. The graft this time came from the patient’s sister.
