MIRACLE BABY

BEAUTIFUL baby Jesús, the first child born in Spain after a uterus transplant, is finally in Murcia with his incredibly strong and loving family.

Tamara, his mother, has Rokitansky syndrome which affects about one in 5,000 women worldwide. These women are born without a uterus and so cannot get pregnant.

Tamara was heartbroken when she was diagnosed with this condition at 15 years of age, but never gave up hope and when she heard on the news that a baby had been born in Sweden thanks to a uterus transplant she began her investigation.

She came across Francisco Carmona, head of the gynaecology dept at Clinic Barcelona who was prepar­ ing to carry out this type of transplant, and when he heard Tamara’s story he agreed to proceed with the complex procedure.

Tamara’s sister, who already gave birth to her