Pregnancy After Tubal Ligation

You have had your tubes tied but now want a pregnancy after tubal ligation.  Do you feel like you are the only one?  People, including friends and family, that you talk to just don’t understand why you would want another child.  “OK, it’s unfortunate that your life has changed but you knew that tubal ligation was permanent when you did it.  You can’t change that,” they say.

Those people just don’t know what they are talking about.  You shouldn’t feel alone either even if no one in your immediate environs seems to understand.  In fact, there are almost a million women just like you who want to reverse having their tubes tied if we look at the statistics from the CREST study as presented by the CDC.

Let’s look at the statistics from the study year of 1995.  Over time, data was collected and by this year had pretty well settled down to these reported facts.  About 41% of women between the ages of 15 – 44 were considered surgically sterile.  Of these, 26% were the results of having their tubes tied.  That’s 15.3 million women in that year in that age group who were considered sterile.

What is most interesting is that the report goes on to bring out the point that of the 26% of these 15.3 million sterile women (3,978,000) who were sterile as a result of tubal ligation in 1995, almost 1/4 wanted their tubal ligation reversed.  My calculator shows that to be 994,500 women in 1995 alone that wanted a reversal.  Another interesting point was that even 11% of women whose partner had had a vasectomy wanted a reversal of that procedure as well.  This just goes to prove that you are far from alone in your desire to have a pregnancy after tubal ligation or any kind of sterilization for that matter.

However, if you do feel alone in your desire among the people you see every day, there is something you can do.  Just visit the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center’s website and go to the tubal reversal message board.  There are many women there with whom you can visit and share your questions and concerns.  You won’t feel alone once you join this group of women with a shared goal.  That goal is to reverse their tied tubes and to once again have a pregnancy after tubal ligation.