A 2-year old Korean girl, who was born without a trachea, received revolutionary surgery as doctors created a windpipe for her using her own stem cells, according to ABC News.

Hannah Warren was born with a rare birth defect called “tracheal agenesis.” Due to the tragic birth defect, she stayed in a neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital in Seoul, South Korea. Before the surgery, the defect took her ability to eat, breath, swallow, or drink without assistance.

After the nine-hour surgery, she was able to enjoy her first lollipop.

"All we have ever wanted since Hannah was born was to be able to bring her home and be a regular family," said Hannah's father, Darryl Warren, in a statement issued by the Children's Hospital of Illinois. Doctors from around the globe gathered at the hospital to figure out how to perform the surgery. Warren came to the United States for the surgery with his Korean wife Young-Mi Dana and their four-year old daughter Dana.

 According to the hospital, Hannah is the first child to ever receive a tissue-engineered trachea without the help of cells from a donor. Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, the lead surgeon, added that this procedure also bypasses the need for an extremely long treatment requiring immunosuppressant drugs.

"The most amazing thing, which for a little girl is a miracle, is that this transplant has not only saved her life, but it will eventually enable her to eat, drink and swallow, even talk, just like any other normal child," said Macchiarini in a statement. "She will go from being a virtual prisoner in a hospital bed to running around and playing with her sister and enjoying a normal life, which is a beautiful thing."

Darryl and Dana Warren thanked the doctors at a press conference on Tuesday.

"It's been a long journey for her," Darryl Warren said. "We're just so blessed that she was able to get this unbelievable opportunity. She really only had one chance, and now she got it. She's here with us. And we couldn't ask for anything else."

Hanna is not the first child to receive an artificial trachea with the use of stem cells, even though she is the first child to have the surgery done using only her own cells. According to a hospital statement, she is currently recovering with help from pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, and speech therapists.