Thank you

Not everybody wants to adopt and that’s ok. Also adoption is a crazy process that some people may not feel cut out for. And that’s ok too.

Can we just get it in our heads that it is not solely the duty of infertile people to carry the burden of our foster care systems? This woman has already adopted three anyways, but it seems like whenever an infertile person seeks to birth a biological child there are a bunch of people just waving their hands around…

It’s crazy how everyone keeps moving the goalposts for this woman. When we first heard about the story people said, “She’s so selfish! Why doesn’t she just adopt?” Then we find out that she has adopted children, and they said, “She’s a terrible person to have a biological child when she already has three adopted…

Fuck off!!

Have you tried? I have. Turns out that spending fifty thousand dollars (thus far) and being poked and prodded for a year to try to get pregnant on my own is far cheaper and less emotionally challenging.

One of the more ignorant comments I’ve ever read on here. I have an aunt who adopted first and then went through hell (although not this level) to have a biological child. Those kids were never in competition. Why do we demonize the urge to experience pregnancy and childbirth? Why would we assume that adopted children…

SHE DID!

This does, however, bring attention to the fact that in the Cleveland study they used dead donors rather than live donors and whether that will affect the success rates.

Just for context of what this means for the procedure moving forward, Sweden is currently the only country in the world to have performed successful uterine transplants. The program operated on 9 women (all from living donors) and 5 have given birth to healthy babies (transplants were done in 2 other countries: Saudi…

also possibility of blood clot

She's already adopted three apparently. She's fulfilled her infertile person duties.

I feel like they should have waited longer to announce it.

How do you know they would have had to compete? She may have a strong inbuilt feeling of need to produce a child from her own body. There’s so much we don’t know about hormones and instincts and, let’s face it, pressure from society to have a perfect pregnancy.

Holy fuck, this is really awful criticism.

She has adopted. She adopted 3. I think she deserves to have a biological birth if that’s something she wants.

She’s already adopted three but she wanted to experience pregnancy and birth.

between adhering to immunosuppressents and fighting off infection, it was premature to declare success. Maybe they meant the surgical portion of transplantation was a success. They had blood flow and the patient survived.

I wish I could give her a hug. Fertility issues suck, and the idea of going through a surgery with so much hope, only to have it taken away- it must feel like her body is failing her all over again. #youarenotbroken

The hospital maybe should’ve waited a little bit before publicly declaring success? Aren't organ transplants really touchy for a while? Poor Lindsey :(