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Sunday, August 16, 2009

First birth after ovarian transplant

Sunday, August 16, 2009
Belgian day-old baby Tamara Bouanati nestles in the arms of her mother Ouarda Touirat, 32. Touirat beat cancer and gave birth after an ovarian tissue transplant.A Belgian woman has given birth to the first baby born after an ovarian tissue transplant, a medical advance that gives hope to young cancer patients whose fertility may be damaged by chemotherapy.

The baby, a healthy girl named Tamara, was born at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday in a hospital in Brussels and weighed 8.2 lb. Her mother is Ouarda Touirat, 32, a hospital spokeswoman said.

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