IN A jaw-dropping medical mystery, a woman became pregnant despite having her tubes tied.
Katrina Wolf-James, 29, underwent a procedure in December 2023, putting her childbearing years behind her – or so she thought.
The mum already had two children, three-year-old Casper and one-year-old Guinevere.
But in September 2024, Katrina found out she was expecting a third baby, which left her stunned.
Katrina was left questioning how the egg made it to her uterus, as she’d had her the year before.
She said she was even shown her tubes after the procedure was finished.
Residing in East Palestine, Ohio, USA, she said: “I’m pregnant after fallopian tube removal. This is incredibly rare!
“I saw my tubes, they were gone, cut out of me.
“So, I really don’t know how the egg shot from the ovary, was floating around in my abdomen and made it to the uterus.”;
Tubal ligation is a permanent type of , where the fallopian tubes are blocked or cut to stop sperm meeting an egg.
It’s thought to be 99 per cent effective in preventing further pregnancies.
The heath care professional chose to have her tubes removed when she gave birth to her daughter via .
But she started experiencing telltale symptoms, such as tiredness and nausea.
Katrina also noticed her trousers weren’t fitting correctly.
At first, she simply assumed with that she’d been eating a bit too much .
“I was feeling sick after eating a bunch of Wendy’s and I’m like ‘Okay, it’s definitely the Wendy’s. It’s the fast food. It’s got to be,’”; Katrina told her local news network.
“I’m still tired after napping and iced coffee.
“My mother-in-law asks me ‘Could you be pregnant?’ and I’m like, ‘No, it’s medically impossible’.”;
But Katrina later found out this was in fact the case after visiting OB-GYN who did the surgery.
He told her there was a baby in her womb and that he could pick up a heart beat.
Explaining about her near-impossible pregnancy, Katrina said: “Everything was sealed and cauterised shut; there were several people witnessing it.
“My baby made it into the uterus no matter what the odds were.
“It’s mind boggling!”;
Katrina is expecting a little girl and planning to name her Eleanor.
She’s hoping to get find out how exactly this medical mystery of a pregnancy came about after she gives birth.
