Pregnancy After Tubal Reversal
Women come from all over the world to Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center for tubal reversal surgery. It is natural, and appropriate, for them to ask what their chances will be for pregnancy after a tubal reversal procedure performed by Dr. Berger. This important question about the anticipated benefit should be asked of any doctor before undergoing elective surgery. When answering questions about pregnancy after tubal reversal, we provide detailed information including pregnancy rates and their supporting data.
What Is The Success of Tubal Reversal?
There is only one way this question can be answered, and it requires ongoing follow up with patients to learn the results of their tubal reversal procedures. At Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, we take this task to heart. Our nurses contact patients repeatedly during the first year after their surgery. When a patient informs us of a new pregnancy, we ask her to complete a Pregnancy Report Form. From this information, we provide a summary on the Weekly Pregnancy Reports Forum. The Weekly Pregnancy Report lists the age, date of tubal reversal, date of positive pregnancy test, method of tubal ligation, and tubal lengths after tubal repair for each pregnant woman. Additional comments about these pregnancies are shown in the Pregnancy Announcements.
Our various pregnancy information forums allow people to see the results from tubal reversal surgery performed by Dr. Berger on an current basis. The reports are not “filtered” to show only successful pregnancies. They include information about miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies as well. We want people to be fully informed about all of the possible outcomes after tubal reversal. One of our missions at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is to provide complete and accurate information about all aspects of tubal reversal surgery!
Pregnancy and Baby Testimonials
Some patients send us messages accompanied by photos after they have delivered their babies. These are spontaneous reports. Although we don’t ask patients to send us testimonials, we love receiving and reading them! They are added to the Testimonials section of our site for others to enjoy as well. Currently there are about 700 testimonial pages.
Testimonials Pages
When a patient sends us a birth announcement and photo to be added to Pregnancy and Baby Testimonials, we update an index page so that there is a link at the top of the page to the newest baby testimonial. The index page is what visitors see first when they click on any link to Testimonials. This page has brief quotes with a link to the full testimonial for each patient. We limit the index page to about 30 summaries. To see previous testimonial index pages, click the “Next” link at the bottom of the page. This will show the immediate prior group of testimonial quotes and links. Currently there are 48 testimonial index pages. To see a listing of all the testimonials, look at the Testimonials Site Map.
Our patients share so many different stories about their pregnancies and deliveries after their tubal reversal procedures. Most people don’t realize how many testimonials there are (689 as of January 13th, 2008. The testimonial number is shown in the “bread crumb” at the top left hand side of the page.) To protect patients’ privacy, only the first initial of the last name is shown. Many women include their email addresses and are happy to correspond with others about their experience here.
Pregnancy and Birth Statistics After Tubal Reversal
Since pregnancy and its outcome are the primary concerns of most women who come here for a reversal procedure, we do everything possible to obtain and report this information on an ongoing basis. This keeps us informed about the number of pregnancies and what their outcomes were after tubal reversal. It also allows us to answer questions and guide patients who are waiting to become pregnant. This takes the efforts of a dozen nurses each day, in addition to their care of patients who are preparing for and undergoing surgery. No other medical facility has undertaken this effort.
As a result of the efforts of our staff and patients, we are able to perform careful analysis and report accurate statistics regarding pregnancy rates and births rates after tubal reversal procedures performed by Dr. Berger. This is referred to as “evidence based medicine”. It is consistent with our mission, and is one of the many reasons why Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center has become known as the best place to have tubal reversal surgery.
September 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Hi Alicia,
I will be happy to assist you with any questions you have about the reversal surgery at our facility. I will also help you with scheduling your surgery. I’ll try calling you, but please always feel free to call the office – 919-968-4656 or email me directly anytime you need assistance: JenniferO@tubal-reversal.net
I look forward to speaking with you soon.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Hello I have one question… I have 3 girls’, 13,11, and 9. I decided after the baby was born I wanted to have my tubes tied. Well I met the love of my life and he has now adopted my girls’ and this is his first marriage and only kids’ now. I want to give him a child of his own. We both are military and just want to get this done asap. He is deployed right now and will be home at Christmas and I would love to be able to tell him that I have found some wonderful news about this procedure. We have been talking about this for awhile, but of course since he has been gone then not much talk has been going on and if there is it’s just hello and how are u and I love you and will be glad when you get to come home. My girls’ just love him to death and consider him there dad already. I love him so very much and tell him all the time, but I know that this is the best way to actually show him just how much. He has told me it’s up to me and there is no pressure from him either way. It’s my decision. He supports me all the way. He loves my 3 girls’ just if they were his own blood.
Hope to get some information and help on this situation.
Thanks and have a great day,
Alicia Shaw
501-607-0749
January 15th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
The testimonial page is probably my favorite page on our website – I love to read about all of the new tubal reversal babies and see their pictures! It is very rewarding (for Dr. Berger in particular, I’m sure) to see each new baby and know that he/she is the completion of a tubal reversal journey.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:12 am
It is quite amazing to be able to assist patients from the beginning of the scheduling process and then to hear that they’ve become pregnant and see pictures of their “miracle babies”.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Publishing our tubal reversal statistics allows us as healthcare providers to provide anticipatory guidance to our patients. We are able to give patients information on success rates based on age, type of tubal ligation, and remaining tubal lengths. This is helpful for women to look at while making the decision to have this surgery. It also allows women to compare our statistics to those of IVF. Tubal reversal surgery is less expensive and has higher pregnancy and birth rates than the alternative IVF.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I for one love reading the pregnancy testimonials. Patients have such wonderful stories about their journey from tubal ligation to tubal reversal with Dr. Berger to giving birth to their “miracle” baby. The pregnancy rates for our patients are very high, which makes this procedure such a wonderful option for women who have been previously sterilized.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Dr. Berger is not just the only doctor with a practice limited to reversal surgery. To our knowledge, he is the only physician with such extensive and accurate data reflecting the outcomes of his tubal reversal procedures. This is significant since we believe patients should have all the necessary information to make an informed decision regarding whether or not tubal reversal surgery is the right choice for them.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
This once again shows the concern and care that we have as caregivers for our patients. I think that it is wonderful that the statistics that Dr. Berger has are from actual data. This type of information gives women an accurate account of actual pregnancies following tubal reversal surgery therefore giving them hope for themselves. The follow up that we do is an important step as it allows us continued communication with the patients. Our care does not end when a patient leaves the facility.