A “miracle” child has become the first child in Britain, born to a mother using a donated pregnancy.

The baby’s mother, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a working uterus, and she attained her sister’s womb in 2023 – the only successful pregnancy transplant from the UK.

Two years after that leading operation, Grace gave birth to her first child in February. She and her husband, Angus, 37, have named their daughter Amy after Grace’s sister, who donated her womb.

Holding Baby Amy – whose weight was more than just two kilos (four and a half pounds) – the first time was “incredible” and “real”, called New Mam Grace.

“It was quite heavy because we really never imagined ourselves what it would be for her to be here,” she says. “It was really amazing.”

Grace and Angus, who live in North London, but are originally from Scotland, hopefully there will be another child using the implanted pregnancy.

The couple initially wanted to be anonymous, but after the safe arrival of Baby Amy, now talking to the BBC about their “small miracles”.

The surgical team told the BBC that they had done three more pregnancies using dead donors since the transplant of Grace. They aim to carry a total of 15 as part of a clinical test.

Grace was born with a rare position, the Mayor-Rokitansky-Coster-Houser (MRKH) syndrome, where the womb is missing or underdeveloped, but with a working ovary. When the BBC first talked to her in 2018, she was hoping that her mother could donate to her uterus so that she could produce her child – but it proved inappropriate.

The BBC again met Grace and Husband Angus in 2019, when one of the two sisters of Grace, Amy Pardi was being assessed to find out if she could donate her womb to grace. Amy and her husband already had two children and did not want any more.

The two sisters counseling before the surgery. Grace and Angus also had fertility treatment and still storage has many embryos. Grace says that he was given the option of surrogacy or adoption, but was “really important” by carrying his child.

“I always had a mother’s instinct,” she says, “but over the years I was pressing it because it was very painful to go there.”

The first child born as a result of a pregnancy transplant was in Sweden in 2014. Since then, about 135 such transplants have been performed in more than a dozen countries, including the US, China, France, Germany, India and Turkey. About 65 infants are born.

Originally scheduled to occur at the end of 2019, the sisters fell through the transplant operation and then saw in suspicion for many years during the Kovid epidemic.

When this eventually occurred, in February 2023, a team of medics took over 17 hours to remove Amy’s womb and transplant for grace.

Surgeon Isabel Quiroga, who led the transplant team at Churchill Hospital in Oxford, says that although the process took a risk for both sisters, it was “life-growing and life-building-and you can’t be better than that.”

Amy says that she did not feel the feeling of loss of some women after hysterctomy due to “dramatic” and her sister’s immediate profit. Grace had his first period within two weeks of the transplant and became pregnant in the first attempt in IVF.

She was “incredible” to feel her baby’s first kick, saying, adding the whole pregnancy was “really special”.

Professor Richard Smith, a gynecological surgeon at Imperial College London, who led the organ recovery team, has been researching pregnancy transplants for more than two decades.

He says that his team is thrilled about the birth of Baby Amy and he will expect many of the 15,000 women in the Childbering Edge who does not have a working uterus, of which about 5,000 were born without pregnancy.

Mr. Smith says a charity Gestation BritainWhich paid NHS costs for the transplant operation of Grace. All medical staff gave their time free.

He reported that BBCs have about 10 women in storage or undergoing breeding treatment, there is a need to consider for pregnancy transplantation. The cost of each transplant is about 30,000 pounds, they say, and donations have enough amount to two more.

The surgical team has a part of a clinical test allowed 15 pregnant transplants, with five and 10 dead donors with five. No details about the three women have been made public, who have so far received pregnancy from the dead donor organs. NHS blood and transplantation BBC additional consent has been sought from families for such rare donations.

Baby Amy’s father, Angus, says that he and Grace will never be able to thank their wife’s sister, so that they can be able to become parents. It was an “absolute no brave” whom he would name Amy after his aunt, Angus.

After the surgeon, the child’s middle name is Isabel, which led the pregnancy transplant team.

For Grace, Baby Amy has also brought her closer to her sister.

“It was incredibly difficult for me to do so,” she says, “This is a very big task of sister love.”