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Penn Medicine’s first living-donor uterus transplant leads to new life and new friendship

“I went my whole life thinking I wasn’t going to be able to have a baby, or carry a baby, or do those little things like pee on a stick and yell, ‘I’m pregnant!”

Chelsea Jovanovich (left) received a uterus transplant from donor Cheryl Cichonski-Urban (right) as part of a clinical trial at Penn Medicine. The two became friends after getting to know one another after the February 2020 procedure.
Chelsea Jovanovich (left) received a uterus transplant from donor Cheryl Cichonski-Urban (right) as part of a clinical trial at Penn Medicine. The two became friends after getting to know one another after the February 2020 procedure.Read morePenn Medicine