Woman who had child after womb transplant calls for wider availability

Peyton Meave, pictured with her husband Adam, stepdaughter Addison and daughter Emersyn (front), said she was ‘happy for all the women who are next in line’. Photograph: Supplied

One of the first women in the world to successfully deliver a baby after a womb transplant has called for the procedure to be made more widely available to help the large numbers of women affected by uterine factor infertility.

Speaking after the first womb transplant surgery in the UK was reported, Peyton Meave, 29, who lives in Oklahoma, said that having a child through participation in a US trial had been a “life-changing experience”. Having previously been told that pregnancy and childbirth would never be an option, Meave now has a four-year-old daughter, Emersyn.