For the first time in history, a woman in Sweden delivered a baby after receiving a womb transplant.

The 36-year-old mother, who has not been identified, received a uterus from her 61-year-old friend who was was well past menopause last year. Although the baby boy was born prematurely last month, medical experts say that both the mother and child are healthy and living at home.

The doctor who performed the pioneering procedure said on Friday, "The baby is fantastic," reports The Guardian.

Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF who led the research and delivered the baby, said, "But it is even better to see the joy in the parents and how happy he made them."

Although the parents had to endure years of research and experimentation, they said that it was well worth the wait.

"It was a pretty tough journey over the years, but we now have the most amazing baby," the father said to BBC News. "He is very, very cute, and he doesn't even scream, he just murmurs."

Two other medical teams have attempted a womb transplants procedure in the past, but neither resulted in the successful delivery of a baby.

In one attempt, the organ was removed after it became diseased after three months, and the other case resulted in miscarriages.

Brannstrom said the birth in Sweden as a joyous moment.

"That was a fantastic happiness for me and the whole team, but it was an unreal sensation also because we really could not believe we had reached this moment. Our success is based on more than 10 years of intensive animal research and surgical training by our team and opens up the possibility of treating many young females worldwide that suffer from uterine infertility."

In addition, Liza Johannesson, a gynaecological surgeon in the team, said, "It gives hope to those women and men that thought they would never have a child, that thought they were out of hope."