A baby boy has been born following a successful womb transplant at Oxford University Hospitals in Oxfordshire. Hugo Powell was born in December 2025, and his birth marks the first time in the UK that a child has been born using a womb from a donor who had died.
The transplant surgery took place in 2024 at the Oxford Transplant Centre, which is located at Churchill Hospital. A team led by consultant surgeon Isabel Quiroga performed the operation as part of a specialist research programme.
The project is funded by the charity Womb Transplant UK, which has now supported five of these transplants across the country. Hugo is the second baby born through the programme overall, but the first to result from this specific type of donation.
This achievement offers new options for the estimated 15,000 women in the UK who are unable to get pregnant because they do not have a womb. This success is only the third time a birth like this has happened in Europe using a womb from a donor who had passed away.
While the transplant surgery happened in Oxford, the baby was delivered at a hospital in London. Doctors from both teams worked together to manage the pregnancy and the birth, which was announced on February 24, 2026.
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