If you don’t have a uterus being a woman, because you came to the world that way or had surgery to remove it, conceiving could be an option soon in the US.

Cleveland Clinic officials made an announcement on February 25 that the hospital performed the first uterus transplant in the US past Wednesday. The practice was part of a clinical trial that is likely to include 10 women in total.

The surgery was performed on a 26-year-old patient, who is stable now, post nine-hour-long surgery. However, the hospital made an announcement regarding the transplant in a lot of rush after the procedure, it's quite early to say if there will be problems and obviously too soon to make any comment over whether the patient can have a successful pregnancy or not.

The patient will have to wait for about a year, until her uterus heals fully prior to she can undergo in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive.

Besides, the clinical trial is presently underway, and the findings haven’t been published or peer-reviewed. All of these are the reasons why the first uterus transplant of the nation must be greeted with hopefulness but also with caution.

Europe has already seen uterus transplants. The Guardian reported that a similar clinical trial in the UK got ethical approval in September.

In 2014, a 35-year-old Swedish woman became the first woman to deliver a baby with the help of a donated uterus, from a 61-year-old known of hers. In that case, she had undergone IVF prior to the surgery and froze her eggs to use when she will receive her donor uterus.

However, the Cleveland Clinic trial was the first in the US. In November, the announcement about the same triggered a media firestorm, including an extensively shared article in The New York Times.