The Latest: Recipient of 1st US uterus transplant grateful
[...] she says she has prayed since learning she was infertile at age 16 for the opportunity to experience pregnancy.
To ensure the new uterus is healthy enough for a pregnancy, recipients must wait a year before doctors perform in vitro fertilization.
Doctors there say the still-experimental treatment might be an alternative for some of the thousands of women unable to have children because they were born without a uterus or lost it to disease.