A 36-year-old Swede has become the world’s first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant, doctors said.

“It was breathtaking. I think all of us felt that,” Liza Johannesson, the surgeon, said in a video supplied by her university on Saturday. “It was like having your own child, actually, it was the same feeling. No one could really believe it.”

The healthy baby boy was born last month at the University of Gothenburg’s hospital. Both mother and infant are doing well.

Weighing 1.775kgs, the baby was born by Caesarean section at 31 weeks after the mother developed pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy condition, according to the medical journal The Lancet.

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