Wow! What a blessing. That’s highly unusual. I’ve had clients who were unable to carry out their pregnancy because it was an ectopic pregnancy. They really have a miracle baby!

What a wonderful miracle that the doctors didn’t terminate this pregnancy. There would probably be more of these blessings if doctors didn’t play God so often.

The miracle is that the doctors didn’t know that they should terminate this pregnancy. There would probably be more such miracles born if doctors didn’t take it upon themselves to play God so often.

I have to agree and disagree. Dealing with en ectopic pregnancy can be deadly. It’s by God’s grace that she made it through. But it would be wonderful if we could find a way to deal with these pregnancies and still have life in the end.

@CR

I take it you have no idea what your talking about.

Claire, you are absolutely right.

This is abolutely amazing. As someone who has experienced an ectopic pregnancy, I have no idea how this woman and child both survived. In my case, the fallopian tube was the location where the baby attached and when the fetus reached the size at which the tube could no longer expand, it ruptured and I was hemoraging badly. Unfortunately, we lost our baby and my fallopian tube during emergency surgery to save my life. This occured at just six weeks of pregnancy with every symptom present. The saddest part is that with all of the symptomes and an ultrasound, the doctor failed to diagnose me properly until it was too late. While saving our child was probably not possible, my fallopian tube ruptured and was removed as a result. Cherish this beautiful gift from God as you are truley blessed, both of you!

As an Ultrasonographer of 13 years let me say that this is an exceeding RARE event . We can typically identify ectopic pregnancies in most as early as 6 weeks ; and I personally in all my years of scanning have never seen one go past 9 weeks without rupturing . This truly is amazing. Dinately ranks as a miracle in my book!

As for people questioning WHY this wasn’t picked up via the routine 2nd trimester eltrasound , the answer is very simple . Without symptoms the mother would not have had a 1st trimester sonogram , by 20 weeks the actual uterus would have been compressed by the pregnancy itself and more than likely displaced posteriorly pushed back behind colon, and invisable to the technologist as ultrasound can not see through bowel .

In terms of the ” playing God” comment , let me preface by saying I’m a christian woman and hold my faith dear to me , however in 99.9% of cases an ectopic pregnancy is in actuality an anembryonic event in which no physical fetus actually develops . Secondly , it’s an almost certainty that an ectpic rupture would cause the death of the mother . By not removing what for all intents and purposes is a timebomb you’re still playing God, but this time with the life of the mother. Choose life applies to Momma in this case .

Congratz to the happy family .

One has to wonder about the mentality of people who believe this was some kind of miracle from a god, or that doctors should not themselves intervene medically and “play god.” What kind of god would place a baby into a potentially life threatening position such as this? Nearly all ectopic pregnancies end in the death of the baby. This may be the only surviving ectopic pregnancy ever or at least one out of an extreme few that survive. Many ectopic pregnancies end in the death of both the baby and mother if doctors do not intervene. Even as an ER doctor in a small town I have had to terminate two extopic pregnancies in the last three years because of impending fallopian tube rupture and mothers who were in eminent risk of death. Also, if the doctor didn’t “play god” in this case by intervening and performing the c-section, this baby and mother still would not have survived. This is no miracle, but a very rare case indeed, but is of of course, a blessing for the family.

“Terminating” a pregnancy is a round about cowardly was to say abortion or kill another human being. Parents planning for a child take into consideration the dangers and although an ectopic pregnancy is very dangerous it is a risk the parents took while planning a pregnancy. So under no circumstances should another human being even a fetus be “Terminated.”

This reminds me that GOD does work miracles in all forms….This couple was NOT lucky. They were tremendously blessed. Congratulations to both.

I was one of those unfortunate women who had an ectopic pregnancy and was told it had to be removed. My life was more valueable than the baby’s. I had 4 sons at home who needed me.
I do agree, though, if there were a way to keep the mother safe, the pregnancy should go to full term. I am not sure doctors are playing God when they decide to terminate the pregnancy, they are looking out for the woman.

May God bless this little one and all the little ones in the world thank for shareing your story we need good news more these days with so much going on.

Just curious … since the ectopic pregnancy didn’t show up on u/s and there were no complications during her pregnancy why did mom have a “routine cesarean” at 38 weeks?

What a wonderful miracle~~ God says “I will knit you together in your mother’s womb” Hallelujah~~

This news report is obviously bogus. They have socialized medicine in Australia, so clearly any woman with this problem would have been butchered by the inadequate doctors, or probably would have died of starvation in the waiting room.

Right…?

To Claire – Yes, there may be more “miracles” like this is doctors didn’t abort most ectopic pregnancies. But the key word is miracle, because it would be very rare and astounding. Ectopic pregnancies carry a very high risk of uterine rupture, internal bleeding/hemmoraging, and infection that could possibly lead to infertility, on top of the fact that they are more likely to be miscarried late term. You obviously have never dealt with this. But sure, doctors should stop playing God and let women suffer like God intended.