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An elderly woman is being hailed as a hero in a story out of London when she came to the rescue of a young woman who born without a womb.

NBC12.com reports:

For the world’s first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb – a medical first – only a victorious name would do.

Which is why his parents named him “Vincent,” meaning “to conquer,” according to his mother.

The 36-year-old Swedish mother learned she had no womb when she was 15 and was devastated, she said Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press.

“I was terribly sad when doctors told me I would never carry my own child,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified.

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