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Catherine Woodgold wrote:

*Hillary Israeli ) writes:
* Assuming you're not talking about ectopic pregnancy (the risk of which is
* increased with IUD) or miscarriage secondary to an attempt to continue the
* pregnancy with the IUD in place or secondary to the IUD being removed....
* what complications for the baby are you talking about?? I can't think of
* any complication I would call a horrible complication *for the baby* other
* than never getting to be born...
*
*I wish you hadn't asked. I'm talking about a baby born with
*an IUD enclosed in some part of the baby's body. I read about
*at least one case of this happening. I have no idea how common it is.

I can't find any reliable documentation for this. I'm not one to say
"never," but if this occurs it must be vanishingly rare. I don't believe
it to be biologically possible, but I won't say I have never been wrong
before.

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Hillary Israeli, VMD
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