Is it possible to get pregnant after a tubal ligation?

If you're done having babies, you're absolutely certain that you don't want to have more kids, there is a permanent form of sterility called a tubal ligation. And this is a procedure performed on a woman where the doctor ties, cuts, burns or clips the fallopian tubes. And it basically makes it so there's a "road block", and the sperm can't meet up with an egg, and you can't get pregnant. As with all procedures though, sometimes they fail. And women who have had tubal ligations have less than a 1% chance of getting pregnant. So the chance is very small that you'll get pregnant after a tubal ligation, but it is remotely possible. I've been a Labor & Delivery nurse for a lot of years, and I've taken care of women who are there because their tubal ligations failed. But it's not very common.

However, if you've been having regular periods, and the day comes when your period should start and it hasn't, then you should take a home pregnancy test. It's really easy to do, and then you can either rule out or confirm that as the cause. If the result is positive, then be sure to call your doctor and let them know that you're pregnant after having had a tubal ligation in the past, because if you conceive after a tubal ligation, the chance of an ectopic pregnancy is pretty high. So the doctor will probably want to rule that out as soon as possible. If you're result is negative, wait another 5 to 7 days, and if you still haven't started your period, take another test, because it's possible that that first result was a false negative, because it was taken a little bit too soon before HCG levels were high enough to be detected by the home pregnancy test. So retest about a week later, and if that result is still negative, then continue to track your bleeding patterns. And if you go 3 months without a period, you have bleeding or spotting between periods, you have abnormally long periods of bleeding where you're bleeding for 8 days or longer, you have heavy bleeding, or there's anything else that you're concerned about, call your doctor. And after asking you more specific questions, they'll decide if further investigation or treatment is warranted in your circumstances. Good luck with everything, and if you have more questions for me in the future, feel free to ask them on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/IntermountainMoms, and recommend us to your friends and family too.

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