Trying to Conceive After IUD
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
I have been on the Minera IUD for 5 years and am getting ready to have it replaced.
My husband and I are thinking of having another child in the near future and I am scared that the IUD will effect our chances of this.
I have 3 children from a previous relationship and want more then anything to give my husband a child of his own, but I am scared that it may not happen.
ANSWER
Having had, I don't know how many, women get pregnant (as near as we can tell counting backwards) the night they took the Mirena out, I wouldn't worry. It's true that it takes some women longer than others, but I don't think it has much to do with the very low dose of medicine in the Mirena, which leaves your system pretty quickly.
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
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Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, teaches in the College of Nursing at Seattle University and is President of the American Association of Birth Centers. She also practices midwifery at Valley Medical Center where she cares for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
Cynthia hosts a monthly "Ask the midwife" chat as well as answers questions via our expert section.
Listen to Cynthia live on Pregnancy.org Live: Before, During and After.
