IUD/Pill/Partial Hysterectomy

[Convert_in_99]

It really is not possible to conceive after your uterus is removed. The cervix is either removed and a cuff is formed and sewed shut, or your cervix is still in place and sewed shut. Either way, the previous poster is correct, the sperm would have to penetrate the cuff and swim its way through your abdominal cavity, find the cauterized ends of your Fallopian tubes, and work their way in. Not going to happen. I had a hysterectomy in April this year, though, and if I understand your last post, and you are able to take birth control instead, definitely look into that first. The surgery is not easy.

Yes to all!

I am still having complications from my hysterectomy in December 2015!

I know I made the right choice, it took away a good portion of my pain and I had Endometriosis and Adenomyosis both. But it is taking a LOT longer to recover than I ever dreamed. My ovaries were taken too so menopause has come to visit me as well…at age 34!

So, yeah, weigh your options. Birth control pills can be taken if they are taken to treat a disease. You are not required by the Church to abstain from married sex while on it, but some do as an extra precaution. It’s a choice best discussed with a priest.

 

[THP]

I believe there would be no requirement of abstenence in this case.

As far as getting pregnant: That would be so exceedingly rare that one can easily say that it is impossible. In the normal state the sperm has to enter the uterus (which would not be gone) and from there travel to the fallopian tubes. Then the fertilized egg has to make it’s way back to the uterus to implant.

Implantation outside of the uterus is very rare and in the cases I am aware of, almost included some sort of trauma that allowed the ovaries to expel more than one egg about the same time that fertilization occurred. (There was a case during the Civil War in which a soldier was shot in his testicles and the bullet went through the ovaries of a nearby nurse. She became pregnant.) In one case the husband and wife had relations just prior to her hysterectomy and an egg was fertilized. Of course no one knew this.

Weeks later she had symptoms of pregnancy(after her hysterectomy) and it was discovered that she was pregnant but that the egg had implanted in her intestinal wall. This is very dangerous, and very unlikely to end with a live birth. In her case the child did develop safely but her pregnancy was considered exceptionally rare and the delivery was by C-section.

I would call this a miracle. It is not something I would worry about at all. So external implantation could occur under some rather extreme circumstances, but it is so rare that it is just not a worry.

I don’t believe that civil war story for a second.

I would love to see a source for your second story.

 

[pensmama87]

I don’t believe that civil war story for a second.

I would love to see a source for your second story.

I can’t speak to the specific stories here, but there are children (in recent years, at least) who have been born healthy after developing outside of the womb. Here is one such story I found quickly with Google. I watched a TV special not more than two years ago about a multiple birth (I think in the UK) where the babies did not implant in the uterus either. There are also records of “stone babies” who implant outside the womb, die, and since they have no way of being delivered slowly calcify. But at least for a time they do grow outside of the womb. (Only 300 or so known cases in human history, though.)

It does give me hope, at least, that there will be treatment available someday for ectopic pregnancies that do not end in the baby’s death.

 

[THP]

I can’t speak to the specific stories here, but there are children (in recent years, at least) who have been born healthy after developing outside of the womb. Here is one such story I found quickly with Google. I watched a TV special not more than two years ago about a multiple birth (I think in the UK) where the babies did not implant in the uterus either. There are also records of “stone babies” who implant outside the womb, die, and since they have no way of being delivered slowly calcify. But at least for a time they do grow outside of the womb. (Only 300 or so known cases in human history, though.)

It does give me hope, at least, that there will be treatment available someday for ectopic pregnancies that do not end in the baby’s death.

Lithopedions probably occur due to uterine rupture, certainly possibly ectopic as well, in either case still in the setting of a uterus being present.

In the TODAY article it just states the placenta was attached to the uterus. Maybe a cornual pregnancy.

I would just like the source from the baby that was conceived the day before the hysterectomy and went on to be delivered.

 

[Convert_in_99]

I can’t speak to the specific stories here, but there are children (in recent years, at least) who have been born healthy after developing outside of the womb. Here is one such story I found quickly with Google. I watched a TV special not more than two years ago about a multiple birth (I think in the UK) where the babies did not implant in the uterus either. There are also records of “stone babies” who implant outside the womb, die, and since they have no way of being delivered slowly calcify. But at least for a time they do grow outside of the womb. (Only 300 or so known cases in human history, though.)

It does give me hope, at least, that there will be treatment available someday for ectopic pregnancies that do not end in the baby’s death.

Wow! What a great article!

Thanks for sharing it.

 

[zea_maize]

I don’t believe that civil war story for a second.

You shouldn’t. It’s a widely believed hoax that dates back to a joke in a medical journal in 1874.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legrand_G._Capers

 

[Listener]

When I had my hysterectomy many years ago, the doctor left my tubes and ovaries in. This is a good way to do it because you don’t have to go through early menopause. All of the terrible pain and bleeding were gone, and I never had any female problems after that. I still continued to ovulate.

I think it’s kind of ridiculous to think you can still get pregnant. After the doctor removes your uterus and cervix, he has to sew up the place where your cervix was, and I assume he has to close up the place where the tubes were attached to the uterus.

I don’t see how sperm could ever get to the egg - it would have to somehow go right through your skin. Even if it did somehow happen, it would not be your fault.

It is usually possible to postpone a hysterectomy by going on the pill. This is a good idea if you still hope to have children.

There is no moral problem, and abstinence is niot required.