+- Parapo Forums (http://www.ekitimi.com/Forums)
+-- Forum: PARAPO FORUM (http://www.ekitimi.com/Forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: HEALTH TIPS (http://www.ekitimi.com/Forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=24)
+--- Thread: Uterus transplant: ‘My sister Donated Her Womb For Me’ (/showthread.php?tid=596)
Uterus transplant: ‘My sister Donated Her Womb For Me’ - Mhiz Rebecca - 10-13-2016
Lolita Wasterlund is one of the few people in the
world to have a uterine transplant. Her sister
donated her uterus – the first and only time this
has happened between siblings.
Lolita was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-
Hauser syndrome which meant she had only one
kidney, a shortened vagina and no uterus.
She told BBC Radio 5 live’s Sarah Brett and Nihal
Arthanayake, it was “really hard” because “she
always wanted a baby” and “always wanted to be a
mother”.
Doctors from the University of Gothenburg
performed the surgery which is seen as particularly
risky when there is a living donor
Lolita’s sister Linda said she only felt scared after
the surgery:
“When Lolita had got my womb then I got scared. I
was thinking what would happen if it didn’t work
and I’ve put false hope into my sister’s mind.”
Lolita gave birth to a son Cash-Douglas in June
2015.