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smeej 4 days ago

> He told the BBC around 10 women have embryos in storage or are undergoing fertility treatment, a requirement for being considered for womb transplantation. Each transplant costs around £30,000, he says, and the charity has sufficient funds to do two more.

Is this because they're not connecting the transplanted uterus to the fallopian tubes or something? Or is there some other reason that it wouldn't be possible to conceive the "old-fashioned way" post-transplant?

Creating and freezing embryos otherwise seems like a very strange thing for a woman to have done who has no uterus, unless she was already considering surrogacy. Where was she expecting them to grow?

Requiring the embryos to be created before knowing whether the womb transplant would be possible or successful seems really odd to me.

saalweachter 4 days ago | parent [-]

Surrogacy is already a thing; stored embryos have a use without womb transplants.

smeej a day ago | parent [-]

Yeah, that's why I said "unless she was already considering surrogacy".

There doesn't seem to be a lot of overlap between women who ate so desperate to carry their own child that they'd undergo a womb transplant, and women who are already so committed to having a biological child that they've prepared embryos to do so by surrogacy.

But none of that answers my actual question anyway, about why it isn't possible to conceive naturally in a transplanted womb.