Impact of UTx on Recipients lives
Our findings suggest that women with AUFI derive value from UTx that goes beyond their experiences with pregnancy and motherhood. UTx is a healing process that helps recipients overcome the negative impact of AUFI and provides an opportunity to transform their social identity by enabling women to share common female experiences of menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. The concept of UTx as an avenue to the common female experience is similar to the findings of an interview study of the first 9 UTx recipients in Sweden. 7 One unique theme that we identified was the value of participation in the UTx clinical trial in helping women in the future.