Trouble Getting Pregnant?

If you have fibroids and are contemplating have a baby, you may be wanting an answer to the question, “How do fibroids affect pregnancy?”. The truth is that there are a number of ways fibroids can impact upon various aspects of pregnancy, but the main thing to remember is that the majority of women who have fibroids will go on to have a successful conception, a healthy pregnancy and a straightforward delivery.

Fibroids affect a large proportion of the female population and in most cases, they go undetected. However, for a smaller number of women, fibroids cause terrible symptoms and these become of greater concern if you are hoping to start a family.

For some women though, things are not quite so simple. One common way how fibroids affect pregnancy is due to their size and location. If fibroids are situated close to the entrance of the fallopian tubes or the cervix, they can simply block the passage of sperm, particularly if they are large. If they are located within the uterus, larger fibroids (particularly subserosal) can distort the uterine cavity and this can cause implantation to fail or for a very early miscarriage to happen, even before the women knows she is pregnant. Later in pregnancy, fibroids can sometimes cause an early delivery, although in the majority of cases, this is usually close to term and will not harm the baby.

Also, fibroids affect pregnancy more rarely, by causing pain and bleeding during the middle trimester. Although this is rarely a serious problem, it can cause pain and many women may worry that they are losing the pregnancy. If this happens, you should seek advice and reassurance from your doctor.

It is worth knowing that fibroids rarely enlarge during pregnancy and will, in some cases, actually reduce in size. However, you may wish to take measures to reduce the size of them and their symptoms before conception.

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About the Author:

Having suffered from very large fibroids herself, Bernadette was scheduled to undergo a hysterectomy when she decided to try an alternative treatment to shrink fibroids naturally. Success followed, and she enjoys recommending this method to other women so they can be free of the symptoms.

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Are you in the situation where your life has changed following your tubal ligation?  Now, you want a baby and here you sit with blocked fallopian tubes.  What are you going to do?

If you are like most women, your first stop is your own family doctor.  Most likely he is going to tell you that having your tubes tied is permanent and your only recourse is IVF at a fertility center.  If you are lucky, he may have heard of tubal reversal surgery, but, again, most likely, thinks it has an abysmal success rate.  Are either of these myths real?

Well, if you read the last paragraph, you did learn that IVF is not the only recourse you have.  If you have been searching the Internet, you also know this is true.  The alternative for a pregnancy after tubal ligation is tubal reversal surgery.  In this surgery, the blockage is removed from your fallopian tubes and then the tubes are recombined.  

So the next question should be which one has the better success rate.  It should be the next question, but I’m betting you really want to know the cost of each option first.  Let’s quickly look at that with the average costs.

The first problem is that you are not comparing apples to apples.  The average cost for a tubal reversal in the U.S. is $8,000 – $9,000.  That is for the onetime surgery.  

The average cost for IVF is $10,000 – $12,000.  However, that is on a per cycle basis which means if one cycle fails, you have to pay again to try again.  Using frozen embryos from the first try, if available, might make the cycle cost go down as the techs won’t have to do the fertilization in the Petri dish part again nor over stimulate your ovaries to produce more eggs though your uterus still needs to be prepared for implantation.  That should make it safer on you as well, at least the second and third times, if enough embryos have been frozen.

OK, so the cost question is out of the way but comes back up again later.  Let’s look at the success rate.  Using a CDC report, we find that the pregnancy rate for IVF is 35% for all the cycles in the data that made it past the initial stages.  There were about 11% of tries that didn’t make it even to the egg collecting part due to one problem or another.  But of those that did, barely more than a third resulted in a pregnancy.  I won’t even talk about the actual live birth rate.  You can check that out in the CDC’s report yourself.

Turning to tubal reversal where your fallopian tubes are actually repaired allowing you to try for a natural pregnancy, we find that there is no CDC report available.  That’s where one tubal reversal center stepped in and collected data on over 5000 women.  From their results, they found tubal reversal to have an overall 66% pregnancy rate over time.  Unlike the alternative, you can try and try again each month to make a baby for the same cost.  Hmmm, looks better than IVF to me.  

Now I need to point out one thing to be sure you noticed it.  When your fallopian tubes are repaired by tubal reversal surgery, you can try each month (and several times a month) to get pregnant.  With IVF, it’s one shot and then there is recovery time before you can try again.  With a less than 35% chance of having a baby that way, you are going to be trying again.  And that leads to my point.  Each time you try with IVF, you pay till you get the baby or you give up.  So which do you think is the better alternative after tubal ligation?

About the Author:

To know more about a pregnancy after tubal ligation, success rates, and repairing your fallopian tubes, just visit the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website. Ask your questions any time. Connect with other women via the message board. Decide which is best for you.

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