Pregnancy After Tubal Reversal Surgery

Sometimes, you get thrown a curve. Some time back you had your tubes tied but now you've changed your mind and have had or will have a tubal reversal so you can conceive another child. Once the operation is done, all you have your mind on is trying to conceive and have a pregnancy after tubal reversal surgery. However, you shouldn't get ahead of yourself. Here are a few tips and facts to help you out while trying to conceive.

Begin by realizing it takes time to get pregnant. During the time that nature is taking its course, you will find some of the following tips pertinent but let this one fact here help you maintain a positive mindset. During a 2007 study of his tubal reversal patients, Dr. Berger found that the vast majority of them got pregnant within 13 months. Yes, this does mean that there are a few who take longer. But I hope it will help you to know most do have a pregnancy after tubal reversal surgery within about a year.

Before you begin trying to conceive, let your body heal after the tubal reversal. You had abdominal surgery and all those muscles and tissues need to heal. After all, you want your body strong enough to carry that new child. Dr. Berger says to wait at least one cycle before working on that pregnancy after tubal reversal surgery.

Don't rush into having a HSG done to check if your tubes are still blocked. Not only are many HSGs done incorrectly or the results read wrong, you are taking a chance on messing up that tubal reversal. When a HSG is done, it washes "stuff" or debris from the uterus up into the fallopian tubes. This debris can actually cause an infection and/or tubal blockage. It would be a shame to mess up repaired tubes like that and defeat the purpose of working on that pregnancy after tubal reversal. However, when you do get one done, relay it to Dr. Berger so he can read them and provide you with a proper reading if that is possible.

This next tip is rather simple and one your tubal surgeon will probably relay to you as a way of tracking your cycle. Get an ovulation predictor kit. Use it to know when you ovulate so you will know the best time to work on trying to conceive.

Now this last tip is more to relay a fact to you so you will know what may happen and to try to keep you from becoming very upset. MedicineNet.com states that about 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. The general population of women don't always know when this happens for a couple reasons that are related. They don't track their cycle as carefully as you do and the miscarriages can happen very close to menstruation beginning. They just think Aunt Flo came a little early this month. You, however, will be aware of miscarriages that do happen. This is not to say you won't be successful quickly when you are trying to conceive, but it could take a little longer just because this is what can happen.

As a matter of fact, some of Dr. Berger's and Dr. Monteith's patients do achieve a pregnancy after tubal reversal so quickly, it's like they couldn't have even started working on trying to conceive. They get pregnant within just a month or a couple weeks following the surgery. So don't let the above information overly concern you but do let the tips help you through to that wonderful new baby you will be holding one day following your tubal reversal from the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

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