Emelie Eriksson was the first woman to have a baby after receiving a uterus from her mother, in a revolutionary operation that links three generations of their family.
Eriksson was 15 when a doctor discovered she had been born without a womb and explained that she would never be able to carry her own children.
In her early 20s, Eriksson began reading about scientists attempting to create organs from stem cells and was told about the womb transplant research being pursued by Mats Brannstrom, a Swedish doctor who is the only person in the world to deliver babies – five so far – from women with donated wombs.
“It’s like science fiction,” Eriksson, 30, said. “This is something that you read in history books and now in the future when you read about this, it’s about me.”