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It was one morning last November when Jennifer Gobrecht arrived at Philadelphia's Penn Medicine hospital at the University of Pennsylvania
去年11月的一個早晨，詹妮弗·戈布雷希特到達費城賓夕法尼亞大學的Penn Medicine醫院，
for what the 33-year-old events planner assumed would be a routine checkup with her OB-GYN.
這位33歲的活動策劃者以為這只是她的常規產科檢查。
Eight months pregnant, the first-time mother had had no complications up to that point,
懷孕八個月以來，第一次當媽媽的她到目前為止沒有任何并發癥，
but tests that day showed that her blood pressure was high—
但是那天的檢查表明她的血壓很高——
and by the next afternoon she was in an operating room being prepped for a Cesarean.
到第二天下午，她就已經在為剖腹產做準備的手術室里了。
Minutes later, clutching her husband Drew's hand as Nirvana played in the background,
幾分鐘后，在涅槃樂隊的背景音樂中，詹妮弗緊緊抓住丈夫德魯的手，
Jennifer delivered a healthy baby boy they named Benjamin Thomas Gobrecht.
生下了一個健康的男嬰，他們給他起名叫本杰明·托馬斯·戈布雷希特。
“We have such a crazy journey to parenthood,” says Jennifer.
詹妮弗說：“我們成為父母的旅程太瘋狂了?！?/p>
“Yet somehow we've been blessed with the most angelic little miracle.”
“但無論如何，這個天使般的小奇跡讓我們倍感榮幸。”
It was a blessing Jennifer thought might never come her way.
詹妮弗曾經以為這種榮幸永遠不會發生在她身上。
Because of a rare condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), Jennifer had been born without a uterus.
由于發生了一種罕見的疾病，即所謂的先天性無陰道綜合征（MRKH），詹妮弗出生時沒有子宮。
But thanks to groundbreaking new science,
但是多虧了開創性的新科學，
she's now one of eight women in the U.S. who have given birth following a uterus transplant.(The first was in Sweden in 2014.)
她現在已經成為美國八名子宮移植術后分娩的女性之一（第一例是2014年出現在瑞典）。
“Having a family has always been a dream of mine,” says Jennifer,
“有一個家庭一直是我的夢想，”詹妮弗說，
who underwent the 10-hour uterus transplant procedure in fall 2018, as part of a research trial at Penn Medicine.
她在2018年秋天接受了Penn Medicine長達10個小時的子宮移植手術，這是Penn Medicine的一項研究實驗。
Six months later doctors successfully implanted an embryo the couple had created through IVF.
六個月后，醫生成功將這對夫婦通過試管授精創造的胚胎植入她體內。
“The vast majority of people with MRKH aren't going to have a uterus transplant,”says Dr.Kathleen O'Neill, medical director of the program at Penn Medicine.
Penn Medicine的醫學項目主任凱瑟琳·奧尼爾博士說：“絕大多數患有MRKH的人都不會進行子宮移植。”
“But knowing that it's possible and understanding the option is beneficial to the entire community.”
“但人們應該知道這是可能實現的，并且這種選擇對整個社區都是有益的?！?/p>
Jennifer still remembers that “very difficult day” in 2004 when she was told she would never be able to carry a child.
詹妮弗仍然記得2004年那“非常艱難的一天”，當時她被告知她永遠無法生育孩子。
The high school junior in Drexel Hill, Pa., had gone to the doctor—who was concerned because she hadn't yet started menstruating.
當時的她還是賓夕法尼亞州德雷克塞爾希爾的一名高中生，她去看了醫生，她很擔心，因為她的月經還沒有來潮。
“I just thought I was a person who got their period late in life,”she says.
她說：“我以為我只是月經來潮比較晚的那種人?！?/p>
But instead tests revealed MRKH, a congenital condition affecting 500,000 women in the U.S., in which the reproductive organs don't develop properly.
但是相反，檢查顯示我有MRKH，一種先天性疾病，在美國影響著500000名女性，她們的生殖器官發育不正常。
“I didn't even know something like this existed,” she says.“Even my doctor didn't know much about it.”
她說：“我甚至都不知道存在這種疾病，連我的醫生對此也不太了解?！?/p>
