The women, aged 29 and 34, were among nine women to have womb transplants – seven of which have succeeded.
Their babies, which were delivered by caesarean section, were grown in the same womb that they were decades earlier.
The medical breakthrough, which was part of a trial at Gothenburg University in Sweden, gives hope to many women around the world who don’t have a womb.
The university started the uterus transplantation in 1999 to help women who were born without a womb or who have lost their wombs in cancer surgery to give birth to their own children.
Three months ago another woman successfully delivered a baby via caesarean section from a transplanted uterus.
She became the first woman in the world to deliver a child from a transplanted uterus but unlike the other two women, it wasn’t donated by a relative. Her transplanted womb came from a 61-year-old unrelated woman.
Professor Mats Brännström, who performed the caesarean section and delivered a healthy baby boy to the woman, said at the time: “It gives us scientific evidence that the concept of uterus transplantation can be used to treat uterine factor infertility, which up to now has remained the last untreatable form of female infertility. It also shows that transplants with a live donor are possible, including if the donor is past menopause.”
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