Israeli sixth in world to birth healthy baby after rare surgery

(JNS) — The first-ever Israeli baby born to a woman who had undergone uterine transposition surgery was delivered at Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, the hospital announced on Wednesday.

The newborn is only the sixth baby in the world born to a woman who has undergone the groundbreaking transposition procedure, it noted.

Professor Ram Eitan, director of Beilinson’s Gynecologic Oncology Unit, who performed the uterine surgery in 2022, recently delivered the baby via Caesarean section, in what the medical center described as “emotional closure.”

“When this technique wa...