Mum shocked to get pregnant after having Fallopian tubes REMOVED to stop her conceiving
A MUM-of-three who had her Fallopian tubes removed to stop her having more children was shocked to discover she was pregnant.
Elizabeth Kough, 39, had decided her family was complete and opted for the procedure - bilateral salpingectomy - three years ago.
But last year she started to feel unwell, and having had three previous pregnancies she recognised the symptoms.
She bought a home pregnancy test and was shocked to see a positive result.
The mum, from Kansas City, Missouri, said she "freaked out" and woke her boyfriend, demanding he drive her straight to the hospital.
Once she got there another test confirmed she was pregnant, so she insisted on an ultrasound amid fears the baby was stuck somewhere in her abdominal cavity.
"And they said, ‘Well, it’s probably a botched surgery'.”
Elizabeth, a US Marine Corps veteran, had the operation in Virginia in 2015.
Her doctors at Meritas Health in Virginia have been unable to explain the pregnancy and documents provided to the local paper show that the surgery was a success.
Elizabeth added: “They said, ‘No there’s nothing there. The surgeon did everything correctly. There’s no tubes. So, he truly was a miracle baby.”
Meritas Health declined to comment on the case specifically, but said in general, bilateral salpingectomy is nearly 100 per cent effective at preventing pregnancy when performed correctly.
An article published in the Singapore Medical Journal in 2007 theorised that in some women the area where the Fallopian tube previously connected to the uterus might not completely close over.
In very rare cases, this could result in an egg travelling through the space between the ovary and the uterus and reaching the opening at the right moment.
This is known as trans-peritoneal migration, and while it can happen it is very uncommon.
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