Can you get pregnant with an IUD?

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I have had the IUD since July of 2007 and i just found out that i am 19 weeks pregnant. It was found in my cervix and i do not understand, everything that i have read about it say that it is not likely. So, i don't know what is worst the fact that I do not trust birth control or that I have a complete unplanned baby coming that I am not ready for.

Absolutely. You can definitely get pregnant with an IUD.

However, the chances of getting pregnant with an IUD are very low. On the packaging it says that the IUD is 99% effective, so it is possible, but not likely.

If you do get pregnant while the IUD is in, the chances are high that will end in a miscarriage. (There is the chance that it will be a successful pregnancy though.)

See your doctor as soon as possible.

Here is some input and advice from others:

• I was using the IUD and felt sick after a while, did a pregnancy test and I sure was pregnant. I went to the doctor who confirmed that I was 5 weeks pregnant and had to remove the IUD immediately. They did warned me that I might have a miscarriage and that my baby might have had serious illnesses. But I had a healthy full term baby boy who is now 7yrs old with no sickness or problems.

• Yes, you can. And the baby can be normal and healthy. I had the SCIO biofeedback device show my baby was there at 4 weeks. We had the IUD removed and Jessalyn is a wonderful healthy child.

• It is possible. Sometimes the IUD gets dislodged or expelled.

• Yes, nothing is 100% effective. My husband's mother had an IUD in when she got pregnant with him. It wasn't a failed IUD or placed wrong. It was in perfect position, he just got past and implanted. He's now 27 and has always been healthy. It's probably a little harder now with all the new advances, but it's still possible.

• Yes, even to this day you can get pregnant with an IUD. I know because my niece will be 6 months old in 2 days. The only safe sex is abstinence.

• Yes, you can get pregnant while on an IUD. I just found out today that I am pregnant and my IUD will be taken out tomorrow. I have had the Mirena since the middle to end of December and I am now six weeks pregnant. Nothing is 100%. But I would recommend the IUD to someone who has not had other failures with birth control.

• Yes, I have had the MIRENA IUD for over two years, and just found out I'm six weeks pregnant.

• I did get pregnant despite IUD once. The doctor told me back then there was an increased risk of the IUD interfering with the pregnancy. He removed the IUD and I lost the pregnancy with it. It will probably require careful ultrasound checks throughout your pregnancy to avoid problems. By the way, after the removal of the IUD, doctors refused to place a new one because they said, statistically women who had an IUD pregnancy are more likely to have another one. I had an ectopic pregnancy later, then lived in abstinence for a long time and 14 years later, at age 41, I was surprised with a perfectly healthy pregnancy. You never know.

• I am a critical care nurse who was not comfortable getting my tubes tied at 28 years old. I decided that the 10 year Paraguard would be perfect until I was ready. After spotting for 6 weeks, I went to my ob-gyn to discover that I was 9 weeks pregnant. The IUD has slipped up into my uterus at this point and cannot be safely removed. The IUD will come out with the baby is what I was told. I faithfully checked my strings, and had just had a pap smear the month before becoming pregnant. After this child, I will be having the tubes tied.

• Yes, I too am now 6 weeks pregnant with my IUD (Paragard) still in place. So far, the baby is fine. My doctor tried to remove the IUD after I found out, but it was so high up in the uterus that it would have caused a miscarriage if she continued. We are going to leave it there until the baby is born. She thinks the IUD will become embedded in the placenta.

• I just found out I am 4 weeks pregnant and I have mirena. I just got my pap in sept. and they couldn't find the string but then i had an xray and they saw it.

• I recently found out I was pregnant with a copper T IUD in place. I had had it inserted 10 months prior after my second child. The ob/gyn removed the IUD at 5 weeks and the pregnancy is progressing normally. Apparently it was inserted incorrectly so the "T" was vertical rather than horizontal, which may account for its failure.

• Yes, if the IUD is not sufficiently aggravating the lining of the uterus, an embryo can attach. Most of these situations lead to removal of the IUD and loss of the embryo.
• Yes, i recently found out i was pregnant with the copper T IUD after three years. i had a normal period about a month ago i began having unusual spotting which was common with my IUD approximately 5 days ago on the 6th day i had severe blood loss and cramping many of my periods were very heavy after i had the IUD put in place but i kept thinking that a heavy period is a small price for not becoming pregnant so i kept it in regardless. i had a history of being very fertile i had been pregnant on many different forms of birth control, different kinds of the pill, the morning after pill, condom use, everything failed. dr's questioned me at a young age wondering if i missed pills or didn't take them properly or was careless. it was never the case. after a bunch of pregnancies including 2 miscarriages one ectopic pregnancy and 5 abortions and 2 children. i wanted to have my tubes tied and since i was under 30 they didn't want to do it. my dr knew my history and knew i was pretty much forced into motherhood and felt robbed of having a supportive partner and fairy tale relationship. i never wanted any children to be honest. i did what i could to avoid it from happening. so after my last abortion the doctor put in the IUD. told me it was 99.99% effective for 5 yrs. so here I am 3 yrs later at the hospital. the on call doctor had no idea what to think of the severe bleeding and took a look and seen the IUD was in the right place still. the ob/gyn came after 9 hours at the hospital and asked if I've had a urine test. it came back positive. he said the IUD will have to come out and that the pregnancy would terminate itself and i was to be sent home to have a miscarriage. 6 days later (today) I went to the doctor and had a pregnancy test it was positive still. I haven't had any bleeding since the IUD was taken out. I was told the last time I had an abortion that they wouldn't do anymore it would be too dangerous to my health. so here i sit pregnant again when I did what I could to prevent it.

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I am 8 weeks pregnant with IUD in. Doc tried to remove it but could not and has recommended to continue. The risk though is high for the miscarriage even in 2nd trimester.

• Yes, you can definitely become pregnant with an IUD, and I can tell you first hand. However, if you do become pregnant, you should make an appointment for an ultrasound right away, because there is an increased risk of ecoptic pregnancy. I just went through this last week. I went to the Dr's because I thought I had a UTI, and it turns out I was pregnant.. ultrasound revealed that I had an ecoptic pregnancy, and I wound up needing emergency surgery to have it the pregnancy (and one of my tubes!) removed.

can you still have a period and have a IUD pregnancy as well

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I was concieved back in 1977 with an IUD in place. I also fell pregnant when my own Mirena (type of IUD) fell out 3 years ago.

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