As a teenager, I was told that I would never be able to carry my own child. I had been diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, or MRKH, meaning I was born without a uterus.

Then in 2016, I met Dr. Giuliano Testa, an expert in kidney and liver transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He had gathered a team of experts for a groundbreaking clinical trial, and I was one of 10 women selected to participate. A few months later, I had a functioning transplanted uterus—the first in the U.S.