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.