When Antonella gave birth at age 50 to her daughter, Rosaluna, in Rome, Italy, the circumstance were unusual, not just because of her age. Antonella had previously had a tubal ligation. But she and her husband wanted to have a baby.
Tubal ligation reversal is not a well known procedure in Italy. Through the internet, they found out about a Tubal Reversal Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that exclusively performs tubal reversal operations as an outpatient procedure.
Antonella and her husband travelled to Chapel Hill to have her tubes untied. Ten years later the payoff was the successful birth of her tubal reversal (TR) baby.
Most physicians in the US do not advocate tubal reversal surgery, particularly for women 40 or over. In these cases, they usually recommend in vitro ferilitzation with eggs donated by a younger woman. Many couples do not want treatment by IVF for religious, personal, or other reasons, including the realization that the baby is not the genetic offspring of both partners.
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center publishes the tubal reversal success rates of their patients that show that women 40 and older have a 1 in 3 chance of becoming pregnant after tubal reversal surgery if they are having regular menstrual periods.
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