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Man who had his manhood rebuilt makes medical history by becoming a dad

Health & Science

-Mirror

Mississippi, USA: A man who suffered a botched circumcision when he was a child has become the first person in the world to conceive a baby with a totally reconstructed penis.

Mike Moore was just seven years old when doctors had to amputate most of the organ, which had become infected after the routine surgery went wrong.

It led to years of bullying, the breakdown of his first marriage and a long struggle with depression.

But he has now become the proud parent of son Memphis with his new wife Heather, 25.

Mike, 30, said: “The one thing I wanted most was a family – I didn’t think it was going to happen, to have kids, to have a wife who loves me for who I am. It put me in a deep depression.

"Then in October we had Memphis. I love that boy with all my heart.”

Mike, of Mississippi, US, had already undergone three attempts to have his penis rebuilt when he flew 2,200 miles to California to visit Dr Gordon Lee in 2007.

The surgeon took skin from Mike’s thigh to make the organ, and this time it worked. Dr Lee has even met the miracle baby he made possible.

He said: “His story is, as far as I know, a first in the world for a totally reconstructed penis to go and have a baby.”

Mike said his first wife “couldn’t deal with the sight” of his new manhood. But in 2011, he met Heather.

He said: “She accepted me for who I was.”

The couple wanted to have the baby naturally, but after months of trying they turned to artificial insemination using his sperm, and Heather fell pregnant.

They are now trying for a second child.

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