Jeanette Jalil

We created our own embryos.

And then I got the phone call from Wim Trans Funk UK.

And that was just...

It was such an unbelievable moment for me to get that phone call.

I got put on the waiting list because, of course, I have a deceased donor.

We were waiting for a donor, a match with myself.

And then one June day, I received that phone call.

And we ultimately then had to go to Oxford and have the transplant.

Following that, then, of course, embryo transfer.

And that's the little boy.

Womb transplants normally come from close relatives who've already had their own families or from deceased donors.

More than 100 have been performed around the world with more than 70 healthy babies born as a result.

Isabel Quiroga is a consultant surgeon and she carried out Grace Bell's womb transplant.

Anna Foster asked her why when heart and kidney transplants are so common, there are still relatively few womb transplants.

So with uterus transplant, it's not a life-saving operation, but it is a life-creating operation.

It was in 2014 when the first uterus transplant was done successfully in Sweden.

So it does take a very, very long time for everything to fall into place, for the research to be done safely and to translate it onto the human setting.

And how complex is it as a procedure?

Oh, unfortunately, I remember some years ago talking to the Swedish surgeons and they said, oh, you know, it's like a kidney transplant, like a living donor kidney transplant.

Well, there's nothing like it.