While birth control pills are the number one form of birth control in the U.S. today, its effectiveness varies from about 92% to 99%. There are many factors that play into just how effective it is. So at some point, many women decide they are done having children and want a more permanent form of birth control which does not include having to remember to take a pill every day at the right time. For this, many women turn to tubal ligation.

However there remains the question of how effective getting your tubes tied is as well. Is there a chance of you having a pregnancy after tubal ligation?

To actually answer this question, we have to break the answer down by groups, so to speak. What this means is that there are the women who are afraid of and do not want a pregnancy. Then there are the women who change their minds for whatever reason and decide they do want to get pregnant again.

For the first group, the results of a CREST study gave the chances of a woman becoming pregnant following her ligation surgery as 1.43 in 100 or 1.43%. That’s because out of a group of 10,000 women in the study, 143 became pregnant. So even though you don’t have to remember to take the pill or put on the patch any more, you do still have a chance of becoming pregnant.

Unfortunately, if you do become pregnant after getting your tubes tied, there is a much greater risk of it being an ectopic pregnancy. If you start having symptoms of being pregnant following your surgery, get to a doctor quick. An untreated ectopic pregnancy can be life-threatening.

Now should you be desirous of a pregnancy after tubal ligation, then your answer becomes, “Yes, you can have a chance of getting pregnant again.” You will need to have tubal reversal surgery to repair your fallopian tubes as best as they can be. In a study done by one leading tubal reversal (and tubal surgery for women wanting tubal blockages removed) clinic, women have on average a better than 2/3 chance of getting pregnant following the tubal reversal surgery. This is much, much better than the alternative of IVF.

One thing you should know is that this varies according to your age, the type of tubal ligation you had done (the amount of damage done to your fallopian tubes), and the amount of tubes left after the damage is removed and the tubes reattached. If you fall just right in those categories, your chances of getting pregnant can be as high as 87%. Those are pretty good odds for a pregnancy after tubal ligation.

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