Health: Woman becomes first in the world to fall pregnant after womb transplant

                                                   Derya Sert, 22, from Anamur in Southern Turkey, was born without a womb

A Turkish housewife has become the first woman in the world to fall pregnant after undergoing a womb transplant.

Married Derya Sert, 22, from Anamur, southern Turkey, conceived after undergoing IVF treatment in a world first that will bring hope to thousands of women without uteri. 

Mrs Sert has already made medical history once when she became the first woman to have a successful womb transplant in August 2011, receiving a new uterus from a dead donor.

Doctors waited 18 months to start fertility treatment and last week implanted an embryo – one of Mrs Sert’s eggs fertilised with her husband’s sperm – into her new womb. 

Professor Mustafa Ünal, chief physician at Akdeniz University where the procedure was carried out, said: 'Two weeks after we implanted Mrs Sert with a fertilised embryo, test results are consistent with early pregnancy.

There are thousands of women in all over the world who were born without  a womb or who have had theirs removed for medical reasons. This might be a great medical breakthrough for such women.