Tubes Tied – What About Pregnancy After Tubal Ligation?

November 16, 2009 – 11:08 am

Have you had your tubes tied but now regret your determination? What can subsist done to have a successful pregnancy after tubal ligation? Are you tender alone in your desire for a pregnancy after tubal ligation? If so, it might surprise you to know that as many as 25% of women who have their tubes tied feel the same way. They want the procedure reversed and that is certainly a task that can be accomplished with tubal ligation reversal surgery.

According to a study done in conjunction with the CDC, 41% of women in the age group 15 – 44 years old are surgically sterile. This study was done in 1995 and is called the CREST study. This rate rose from 16% in 1965 and unchanging around the 41% mark by 1995. In 1995, of these 15.3 million women considered surgically sterile, 26% were finished by tubal ligation. That’s around 4 million women in that year alone in the age group mentioned above. Of those, the study showed that around 25% of them wanted the surgery to have their tubes tied reversed. That is almost a million women.

If you are one of the millions of women wanting to achieve this reversal, you will need to find a tubal surgeon. In tubal ligation reversal surgery, he will find the point(s) on your fallopian tubes where the blockage was created when your tubes were tied. He then cuts away this blockage and sutures together the segments creating a whole tube down which the egg and sperm can travel.

However, it is important that your surgeon know what he is doing and to cut as little as possible in order to have the maximum length of tube left after the reversal surgery. The length of the fallopian tube remaining is an important factor in increasing your chances for a pregnancy after tubal ligation. The longer the tube, the better your chances are.

Also serious is how he sutures your tubes together. You want a surgeon who only sutures together the outer two layers, one at a time, in order to reduce the scarring on the interior layer. This inner layer is covered in cilia that help move along the egg and later the embryo when it is fertilized by a sperm. Minimizing scarring on that stratum maximizes cilia to do this job.

Beyond the length of your remaining fallopian tubes, two other important factors in a successful pregnancy are your age and the type of tubal ligation that was done. Some types of tubals are easier to fix than others. Some leave less mar and more tube behind. As for your age, the older you are, the harder it gets to have a baby especially after 40.

So if you possess had your tubes tied and now want a pregnancy after tubal ligation, you are not alone. Not even remotely. Seek out a tubal surgeon and get a tubal ligation reversal. The best surgeons can be found at the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center where they specialize in tubal reversal and tubal surgery and do nothing else making them world leaders in this procedure.

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