Quote:
Originally posted by
BBW Talks Toys
Since no one answered this, I will. You have probably looked it up by now, but someone else may not know.
An ectopic pregnancy is where the egg fertilizes but doesn't leave the fallopian tube and travel to the uterus. It's also
...
more
Since no one answered this, I will. You have probably looked it up by now, but someone else may not know.
An ectopic pregnancy is where the egg fertilizes but doesn't leave the fallopian tube and travel to the uterus. It's also called a tubal pregnancy. If the pregnancy isn't terminated surgically, it is fatal to the mother.
They can happen to anyone, but they are more common in women who are tied, so I'm always worried that it might happen to me. We always say that if we were to get pregnant, despite having two gold clamps on each fallopian tube, then that baby was MEANT TO BE, and it would break my heart to terminate a pregnancy due to a life or death situation.
less
Sadly, even if the pregnancy is wanted, an ectopic pregnancy cannot be "saved." Ectopic actually means "anywhere but inside the uterus" or in Latin "out of place." Women have had ectopic pregnancies
outside the uterus but not in the tubes, the embryo attaches to the fascia of the abdomen or even the intestines or outside of the uterus, too.
The most common kind is IN the tube. The embryo attaches inside the tube before it gets to the uterus and it has to be removed, almost always along with that tube. Once the fertilized ovum is embedded, it cannot be moved, so there is no way to "save" an ectopic pregnancy if it was wanted. Usually, by the time the pain if felt, in a tubal pregnancy, the conceptus is not living anymore. But, there have been cases of pregnancies carried to nearly term with the fetus attached to internal organs or fascia. It is VERY dangerous to continue these types of pregnancies, since the placenta may detach and without external bleeding to let the woman know this has happened, she is still bleeding heavily inside, her life can be threatened.