First birth from transplanted womb, to Swedish mum, seen as breakthrough

For the world's first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb, only a victorious name would do. His mother says that is why his parents named him "Vincent", meaning "to conquer".

In an interview yesterday, the 36-year-old Swedish mother said she learned she had no womb when she was 15.

More than a decade later, she heard about research being led by Professor Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF.

The woman, who asked not to be identified but is a competitive athlete, said: "I was terribly sad when doctors told me I would never carry my own child. Mats told us there were no guarantees, but my partner and I, maybe we like to take risks, we thought this was the perfect idea."

The details of the birth first emerged in medical journal The Lancet, describing it as a breakthrough for infertile women.

Vincent was born at 31 weeks by caesarean section last month weighing 1.78kg after his mother developed pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy condition.