Would you get a womb transplant

[Sarah leah]

What are peoples thoughts on this post?


https://www.yahoo.com/health/surgery-could-give-men-wombs-1302360099545142.html


I would jump at the chance as I love children and would love another of my own

[noleen111]

I would be first in the queue.

To be able to experience what is properly the ultimate female experience, falling pregnant and carrying the child to term. Having a womb, would mean I would need a uterus, which means monthly periods.. but I don't care.. I kinda always wanted to experience a period as that is something all women go through.

It makes me sad, that I cant give my man a baby, with a womb transplant, I will be able to for-fill this dream. I would love to carry his baby.

In 10 years time, I will be only in my mid 30's and that is young enough to have a child.

[Catherine Sarah]

In something less than a heartbeat

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Catherine

[Harley Quinn]

I could only imagine how much of a circus that's going to be for everyone involved. They made a movie about that in the 90s. "Junior" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito.

I don't think that I could put anyone I cared so deeply about through it. Transition is more that enough attention at the moment.

[RavenL]

Right this minute! I know it probably won't be widespread for years but I can hold out hope! Forty is the latest I would have a child and I still have thirteen years.

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[FluffyPunk]

At mi age an physical status I wouldn't do it but I said yes, as iffin I was still in mi 20's or something I totally would. I was once married an I do have 2 Daughters, I was so painfully lost in turmoil an jealousy when mi Ex was pregnant that it really tore mi up hard.

[Kellam]

If I am ever stable enough to support a child on my own I have had my heart set on adopting a trans kid. I have had dreams about becoming a mother through the need of a child someone else abandoned since I was a teen. That's the dream I want to fulfill.

[SofiN]

If it was possible definitely!

I think about what it would be like to be a mother a lot. Might end up adopting in the future.

[Blush]

Is there a maybe option? It's worth mentioning the anti-rejection medication aspect, pretty serious stuff (which personally makes me pretty uneasy about a transplant). Would I carry a child? Yes. Do I want to carry a child? Not right now.

[Girl Beyond Doubt]

No, because...
...I could not give birth through my vagina.
...of the need to suppress my immune system forever.
...the child would not carry my DNA.

[iKate]

Not in its current incarnation of the surgery. No.

It's like a kidney or heart transplant and you're taking those wretched anti rejection drugs. The uterus has to come out anyway after a couple years.

Call me when they can put one in permanently, made with stem cells or similar.

BTW 35 is considered the end of prime child bearing years by many in the medical profession although I've seen women as old as 55 in fertility clinics.

C section is no big deal. Lots of women have it and they wear the scar as a badge of honor. In any case you'll be going in with a scar.

One final thing is that you need a donor womb and donor eggs because you have no ovaries or Fallopian tubes. But the egg problem is being solved as they are developing techniques to make them from other cells. But the womb has to come from a living or dead donor. That's one of the reasons this isn't ready for prime time yet.

[melissa_h]

In a heartbeat if it was tested and ready now.  If it takes another 10 to get it right?  Not so sure I'd want to be pregnant in my 50s.....

[stephaniec]

!" way too old, 2" the truck load of pills I already take .3: I'll be dead of natural causes by the time it's available

[Jill F]

Not me.

1) I'm 46.
2) I never wanted kids.  I halfway raised my own sister and that was enough for a lifetime.
3) I'd probably get the kid I deserve anyway.
4) I don't take pills unless absolutely necessary.  Anti-rejection drugs? No way. I'm saving my liver for bigger and better things.
5) Yay, more surgeries?
6) 9+ months without drinking? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah, no.

[Martine A.]

Yes, as long as I've got chance to actually use it. Otherwise it is of more use to somebody else.

[saraht123]

It's something I've dreamed of. I would absolutely have a womb transplant if the risks and chance of success were reasonable. I guess the anti rejection drugs wouldn't be forever, the womb could be taken out once pregnancy was over.

On the downside, I'm not getting any younger and it would probably be quite expensive (+ Jill F's 3rd and 6th points, no doubt)

[Jill F]

I also wonder how safe anti-rejection drugs are for a developing fetus, and how hormone levels would need to be regulated to make sure the kid doesn't turn out transgender or intersex as well.  I would certainly not wish my own suffering upon my child.

[BeverlyAnn]

So let's see.  I'm 66 so five to ten years would make me between 71 and 76.  Nah, think I would pass.  Now if I was between 21 and 26 that would be a different matter.

[iKate]

4) I don't take pills unless absolutely necessary.  Anti-rejection drugs? No way. I'm saving my liver for bigger and better things.

This is why when they create one from your own cells that will be the real breakthrough.

I think it's safe to say 99% of us here who want kids either need to adopt or have one with a cis woman. I do see hope for the future generation though. Yes I think Dr McGinn is VERY optimistic but she's the surgeon, not me.

[ThaliaNyx]

Definitely. I've wanted to be a mother since even before I knew I was transgender. (Don't get me wrong, I would be satisfied with adopting, but I would like to experience pregnancy.)