A baby girl has become the UK's first child born to a mother using a donated womb.
The BBC reports 36-year-old Grace Davidson received her sister's womb in 2023, the country's only successful transplant at the time.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says Davidson has given birth to baby Amy - named for her sister.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go to Into Brady, a UK correspondent in to
welcome to you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Ryan, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
And to you too. Now you've got a pretty impressive story.
The first if a baby born in the UK to
a woman with a womb transplant.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, this is absolutely stunning and beautiful and brilliant. Grace Davidson,
she's thirty six, it's originally from Scotland, lives in London
with her husband Angus, and she was born without a uterus.
And two years ago she had a match with her
sister and they carried out all the medical checks in advance,
(00:36):
and they had counseling. Her sister had already had a
couple of children, didn't want any more, so her sister
Amy donated her womb. It was a successful transplant, and
we learned today that Grace has given birth to a beautiful,
bouncing little baby girl two kilos who she has named Amy,
after her sister. So it's not a world first. There
(00:59):
have been other babies born this way in other countries,
but it is the first in the United Kingdom and
the pictures today in the papers just will bring tears
through anyone's eyes listening to the family's story and the
friendship and obviously an amazing relationship between two sisters. Good
luck to them all. It's a wonderful story.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, pretty cool. Now Stama has gone to the landrov factory.
This is the one that's paused all the exports for
a month, just a white and sea pause at the
moment of the terrorists. What exactly has he found out
there or what was he there for?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It was all about messaging. Really, I've never seen a
prime minister stand on a production line. He literally spoke
as vehicles were moving under the production line behind him.
So range Rovers they sell very very well in America.
I mean they're a luxury vehicle that cost a lot
of money. Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Discovery are the
two most popular brands with Americans, and range Rover, the
(01:53):
parent company Jaguar Landrover, have decided to pause exports for
one month. Now. It takes twenty one days to get
a shipment of vehicles sailed from the UK to the
United States, So I think what they're trying to do
is just maybe buy some time or just kind of
wait and see what is going to happen. Because the
wind seems to be changing every ten minutes with these
(02:14):
tariffs and Trump. But it is making no mistake a
huge industry for the UK and has been battered because
of Brexit, and now they've got all of this and
the most recent figures we have last year one hundred
and one thousand units of all vehicles were sold from
the UK to the United States. It's an industry worth
about sixteen and a half billion dollars to Britain's economy.
(02:38):
So Starmer's messaging really was to just show people that
the production lines are still moving and he called for
calm heads, but there was didn't seem to be any plan.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well that's the problem. No one knows what the future
holds it, so it's hard to have a plane, isn't
it that that's part of the problem. Yeah, Hey, Charles
and Camilla land in Italy, sorry I should say the
King and the Queen landon Italy a head of the
twentieth anniversary winning anniversary tomorrow. But is there still now
visit for the Pope as them.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, so that's off the table. It had been initially planned,
but the Pope is in such frail health that Charles
has decided that out of respect, he'll just let them recover.
So what they're doing, it's a two city vacation if
you like, it's a four day state visit. So they
will go to Rome and Charles will become the first
ever monarch to address both houses of Parliament in Rome,
(03:31):
so that's a big honor. There is a meeting with
Georgia Maloney, the Italian Prime Minister, and I'm guessing Charles
will be talking privately about trade and tariffs and Trump
because Maloney in Europe is viewed as the Trump whisperer.
He admires her, They get on and the Italians obviously
have a very strong relationship with the US as well.
And then he will head to Ravenna, beautiful Italian city,
(03:54):
and they're going to go there to mark eighty years
since it was liberated from the Nazis. And then tomorrow
Charles and Cammillar are twenty years married tomorrow, would you believe.
So what a way to spend it in beautiful Italy.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Absolutely. What's yours sense on what the EU is going
to do about Trump? And you know, obviously they've made
sort of a threat, they said we want to do
a zero for zero deal that didn't hit eck or
it wasn't responded to. So what do you think the
Knicks move is.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think they will match him reciprocal tariffs. I think
that is the next thing from the European Union. The
French and the Germans are very strong on this, but
I think, you know, outside of the European Union we've
got splits, so Britain won't do anything. I think I
can't see Starmar wanting to antagonize him. We're dangling the
character here of you know, state visit, a second trip
(04:42):
from the president. No one's ever had that before. I
think what you'll see from the UK is bending over
backwards to keep him sweet. Whatever Trump wants he will
get from Starmar. But I think the European Union will
play hard ball as the Chinese are doing, and it'll
be a case of who blinks first. But I mean,
God help anyone who's retiring in the next few weeks
(05:03):
or months. Check out your investments. I mean, I looked
at stuff I have yesterday and it was an absolute
blood bath. And I think everyone's in the same bolt now.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Ininder, appreciate your time in the Brady Are UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
For more from hither Duplessy Alan Drive.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
Let's go to Into Brady, a UK correspondent in to
welcome to you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Ryan, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
And to you too. Now you've got a pretty impressive story.
The first if a baby born in the UK to
a woman with a womb transplant.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, this is absolutely stunning and beautiful and brilliant. Grace Davidson,
she's thirty six, it's originally from Scotland, lives in London
with her husband Angus, and she was born without a uterus.
And two years ago she had a match with her
sister and they carried out all the medical checks in advance,
(00:36):
and they had counseling. Her sister had already had a
couple of children, didn't want any more, so her sister
Amy donated her womb. It was a successful transplant, and
we learned today that Grace has given birth to a beautiful,
bouncing little baby girl two kilos who she has named Amy,
after her sister. So it's not a world first. There
(00:59):
have been other babies born this way in other countries,
but it is the first in the United Kingdom and
the pictures today in the papers just will bring tears
through anyone's eyes listening to the family's story and the
friendship and obviously an amazing relationship between two sisters. Good
luck to them all. It's a wonderful story.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, pretty cool. Now Stama has gone to the landrov factory.
This is the one that's paused all the exports for
a month, just a white and sea pause at the
moment of the terrorists. What exactly has he found out
there or what was he there for?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It was all about messaging. Really, I've never seen a
prime minister stand on a production line. He literally spoke
as vehicles were moving under the production line behind him.
So range Rovers they sell very very well in America.
I mean they're a luxury vehicle that cost a lot
of money. Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Discovery are the
two most popular brands with Americans, and range Rover, the
(01:53):
parent company Jaguar Landrover, have decided to pause exports for
one month. Now. It takes twenty one days to get
a shipment of vehicles sailed from the UK to the
United States, So I think what they're trying to do
is just maybe buy some time or just kind of
wait and see what is going to happen. Because the
wind seems to be changing every ten minutes with these
(02:14):
tariffs and Trump. But it is making no mistake a
huge industry for the UK and has been battered because
of Brexit, and now they've got all of this and
the most recent figures we have last year one hundred
and one thousand units of all vehicles were sold from
the UK to the United States. It's an industry worth
about sixteen and a half billion dollars to Britain's economy.
(02:38):
So Starmer's messaging really was to just show people that
the production lines are still moving and he called for
calm heads, but there was didn't seem to be any plan.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well that's the problem. No one knows what the future
holds it, so it's hard to have a plane, isn't
it that that's part of the problem. Yeah, Hey, Charles
and Camilla land in Italy, sorry I should say the
King and the Queen landon Italy a head of the
twentieth anniversary winning anniversary tomorrow. But is there still now
visit for the Pope as them.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, so that's off the table. It had been initially planned,
but the Pope is in such frail health that Charles
has decided that out of respect, he'll just let them recover.
So what they're doing, it's a two city vacation if
you like, it's a four day state visit. So they
will go to Rome and Charles will become the first
ever monarch to address both houses of Parliament in Rome,
(03:31):
so that's a big honor. There is a meeting with
Georgia Maloney, the Italian Prime Minister, and I'm guessing Charles
will be talking privately about trade and tariffs and Trump
because Maloney in Europe is viewed as the Trump whisperer.
He admires her, They get on and the Italians obviously
have a very strong relationship with the US as well.
And then he will head to Ravenna, beautiful Italian city,
(03:54):
and they're going to go there to mark eighty years
since it was liberated from the Nazis. And then tomorrow
Charles and Cammillar are twenty years married tomorrow, would you believe.
So what a way to spend it in beautiful Italy.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Absolutely. What's yours sense on what the EU is going
to do about Trump? And you know, obviously they've made
sort of a threat, they said we want to do
a zero for zero deal that didn't hit eck or
it wasn't responded to. So what do you think the
Knicks move is.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think they will match him reciprocal tariffs. I think
that is the next thing from the European Union. The
French and the Germans are very strong on this, but
I think, you know, outside of the European Union we've
got splits, so Britain won't do anything. I think I
can't see Starmar wanting to antagonize him. We're dangling the
character here of you know, state visit, a second trip
(04:42):
from the president. No one's ever had that before. I
think what you'll see from the UK is bending over
backwards to keep him sweet. Whatever Trump wants he will
get from Starmar. But I think the European Union will
play hard ball as the Chinese are doing, and it'll
be a case of who blinks first. But I mean,
God help anyone who's retiring in the next few weeks
(05:03):
or months. Check out your investments. I mean, I looked
at stuff I have yesterday and it was an absolute
blood bath. And I think everyone's in the same bolt now.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Ininder, appreciate your time in the Brady Are UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
For more from hither Duplessy Alan Drive.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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