This Woman Got Pregnant From Having Anal And It Is Making The Internet Go Crazy!
#1 First, it’s important to know that the chances of getting pregnant from anal sex are slim, but not zero.
This anal sex primer can answer a lot of questions. That said, in this rare case, a woman actually did get pregnant from having anal sex.
When your parents told you about the birds and the bees, we bet they didn't tell you that a penis up your poop chute could get you preggers.
#2 Well, luckily, that’s because about 999,999 times in a million, it can’t.
When Brian Steixner, M.D., a urologist with the Jersey Urology Group in Atlantic City, was in med school, though, he witnessed the "lucky" one in a million.
One night, a young, pregnant woman came into the emergency department complaining of spotting. While it's relatively common for women to have light spotting during pregnancy, the blood was coming from her rectum. Thatnot so common.
#3 The pregnant woman was born with a condition termed a cloacal malformation.
As Women's Health explains, "When she was born, she didn't have a urethra, vagina, and anus. She just had one hole, called a cloaca."
The condition is incredibly rare, occurring in about one in 25,000 female live births, says Steixner. While no one knows what causes it, it's usually diagnosed at birth and repaired right away so that the baby has a separate urethra, vagina, and rectum.
Typically, doctors are able to repair this condition at birth, but for this woman it did not work out as planned. "Either the surgery was botched or in response to the trauma of surgery, her body formed a fistula (an abnormal connection between organs),"and her uterus fused to her rectum." So when ever she was on her period, she used to bleed from her rectum, scary ain't it?
#4 During Steixner’s conversation with the woman, he says that she mentioned that she exclusively had anal sex prior to getting pregnant.
Well then, that would explain it: She got pregnant through anal sex. "It blew my mind," he says. A few months later, she had a C-section (the doctors didn't think she should attempt to "poop" out the baby), and the child was healthy, he says.
The surgery is complex, too. "Building the walls to separate the three passages (the urethra, vagina, and rectum) is delicate work," Dr. Steixner notes.
Steixner says he doesn't know what happened to the woman after she had the baby. And while the case of a woman getting pregnant through anal sex due to a cloacal malformation is incredibly rare, being born with a cloaca can be incredibly difficult, even if it is repaired at birth.
