Pregnancy outside the womb Does it exist?

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Yea! Pregnancy outside the womb exists, however, it is a totally impracticable pregnancy for the mother’s body and also for the baby. This type of pregnancy brings some problems for the mother and if not taken care of in time, it can harm future pregnancies to happen . However, to understand all the problems and risks about pregnancy generated outside the womb it is necessary to clarify the normal process in which a healthy pregnancy happens.

It all starts in the ovaries. The follicle grows and after mature, it breaks. This mature egg, ready to be fertilized, is captured by the tube and there, it stays for about 24 hours waiting for the sperm to arrive. If the woman has intercourse during this period, a sperm can fertilize and if there is fertilization, a new life begins with the fusion of the nuclei of the gametes (egg and sperm). After this fertilization, the zygote is guided slowly by the tube to the uterus where it will lodge in the endometrium to grow healthily. However, pregnancy outside the womb is generated at this stage!

The vast majority of pregnancies outside the uterus are ectopic pregnancies, that is, generated in the tube . Instead of the baby traveling through the tube to the uterus, it ends up fixing itself right there where it shouldn’t. The problem is because some women have a barrier in the tube, be it obstruction, collection of liquids or masses. This barrier may have a minimal gap that will let the sperm through but not the baby. Or just by chance, even if there is no mass collection, the baby spontaneously fixes itself in the wrong place. Then we have a problem …

Pregnancy outside the womb causes a lot of pain for the woman. If generated in the fallopian tubes, she will start to feel more and more severe cramps . This is one of the strongest indications that something is not going well. So at the slightest sign of severe pain, it is even better to see a doctor to investigate. If there is no gestational sac or sign of pregnancy in the uterus, he will monitor the pregnancy to check for the possibility of ectopic pregnancy.

In these cases of pregnancies generated outside the womb, the pregnancy must be terminated. The tube does not have enough elasticity to accommodate the pregnancy until the end. It will consequently burst before 3 months of gestation, and this “burst” will bring many ills to the mother. The feasible thing to do in these cases is to remove the baby from the tube, interrupt the pregnancy . If necessary, the doctor will also remove the affected tube. It all depends on the degree of pregnancy progress. Therefore, in order to preserve the tube intact, it is necessary to discover pregnancy outside the womb as soon as possible.

Is it possible for a pregnancy outside the womb to go all the way?

Sometimes the body surprises! There are very rare cases of pregnancy outside the womb that have reached a stage where the baby could be born. This is the case with Emília. It was generated literally outside the womb . However, not in the tubes, but in the abdominal cavity between the intestine and the liver. Emilia’s mom, Alya, was in very strong pain, like a knife in the abdomen. With that, the doctors started to investigate more deeply and found that Emilia was being generated outside the womb!

This happened because, contrary to what usually happens, the embryo was thrown out of the uterus and ended up lodging outside the organ . Fortunately, in a part where the placenta was able to develop normally. The gestational sac evolved normally and the gestational sac as well. These cases are very rare, only 1 in a million babies can be born this way. Only 3 cases were found worldwide for sure.

Surviving between the intestinal loops is a feat worthy of being a miracle of God, it is not easy to get squeezed and wrapped in so many gastric tubes. Because of this tightness, the baby can develop with small deformations as in the case of Emília who had a bad formation in her feet and back, but nothing that some surgeries could not solve.

See also: Ectopic Pregnancy – How It Happens and the Signs

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My name is Dr. Alexis Hart I am 38 years old, I am the mother of 3 beautiful children! Different ages, different phases 16 years, 12 years and 7 years. In love with motherhood since always, I found it difficult to make my dreams come true, and also some more after I was already a mother.

Since I imagined myself as a mother, in my thoughts everything seemed to be much easier and simpler than it really was, I expected to get pregnant as soon as I wished, but it wasn’t that simple. The first pregnancy was smooth, but my daughter’s birth was very troubled. Joana was born in 2002 with a weight of 2930kg and 45cm, from a very peaceful cesarean delivery but she had already been born with congenital pneumonia due to a broken bag not treated with antibiotics even before delivery.

Dr. Alexis Hart

My name is Dr. Alexis Hart I am 38 years old, I am the mother of 3 beautiful children! Different ages, different phases 16 years, 12 years and 7 years. In love with motherhood since always, I found it difficult to make my dreams come true, and also some more after I was already a mother.Since I imagined myself as a mother, in my thoughts everything seemed to be much easier and simpler than it really was, I expected to get pregnant as soon as I wished, but it wasn’t that simple. The first pregnancy was smooth, but my daughter’s birth was very troubled. Joana was born in 2002 with a weight of 2930kg and 45cm, from a very peaceful cesarean delivery but she had already been born with congenital pneumonia due to a broken bag not treated with antibiotics even before delivery.

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