Baby boy born to UK mother after womb transplant from dead donor

Grace Bell says she is ‘the happiest I’ve ever been in my life’ after giving birth to baby Hugo in UK first

A baby boy named Hugo is the first child to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a dead donor.

Hugo Powell was delivered at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital in London weighing 6lb 13oz, after his mother, Grace Bell, received a transplanted womb from someone who had died.

It is the first birth in the UK using a womb from a deceased donor, with only two previous cases reported in Europe.

Bell, an IT programme manager, was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare condition resulting in an underdeveloped or missing womb.