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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Prof Richard Smith, gynaecological surgeon, who led the organ retrieval team, has spent 25 years researching womb transplantation.
Transplant surgeon Isabel Quiroga, who led the team implanting the womb, said the recipient was delighted: "She was absolutely over the moon, very happy, and is hoping that she can go on to have not one but two babies.
Since then 100 womb transplants have taken place worldwide and around 50 babies have been born, mostly in the US and Sweden, but also in Turkey, India, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Germany and France.
Writing in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the team cited "institutional delays" and Covid as reasons why the UK had taken so long to perform its first operation.
Womb Transplant UK said more than 500 women had contacted the charity wishing to take part in the programme, and around a dozen had embryos in storage or were undergoing fertility treatment - a prerequisite for getting on the waiting list.
Lydia now works for the charity Eve Appeal, which funds research and raises awareness into the five gynaecological cancers - womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal.
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