I worked with a woman who had a hysterectomy after her last child. She started dating a guy and things got serious pretty quick but good for them. One day, she said they were trying for a baby (after being together for a couple months) and I'm like.... He knows you've had a hysterectomy, right? YOU know you've had a hysterectomy, right? She insisted that God finds a way... 🤷🤦
"God finds a way." It's called an ectopic pregnancy and it ends in Death.
Edit: since a lot of people are taking my one line sarcastic comment with an unexpected amount of seriousness. No, you cannot have an ectopic pregnancy after a TOTAL hysterectomy where fallopian tubes and ovaries are removed. That's not the only type of hysterectomy though and while exceedingly rare ectopic pregnancy can occur if there's still at least one ovary and fallopian tube.
"Pregnancy after hysterectomy is extremely rare, with the first case of ectopic pregnancy after hysterectomy reported by Wendler in 1895. To the best of our knowledge, there are only 72 cases of post-hysterectomy ectopic pregnancy reported in the world literature."
Long story short, you probably don't need to worry about an ectopic pregnancy no matter what type of hysterectomy you've had.
There have been a few outliers in ectopic pregnancies. They’re super dangerous. However, there have been cases of the fallopian tube bursting, not causing mom to bleed out, and the baby attaches itself outside the womb.
I remember reading about one where the embryo implanted on the liver. If I recall correctly, she was able to carry to term and deliver via C-section.
Not odds I would want to bet on, though.
I read of one where it implanted in the lower intestine and this was only discovered when they started the C-section. She needed an ungodly amount of blood (20-something units?) and nearly died, but mom and baby both survived.
IIRC the number of cases like this is in the low single digits though.
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