Wolverhampton woman's surprise at getting pregnant six months after sterilisation procedure at New Cross Hospital
A Wolverhampton woman was left surprised after she became pregnant despite undergoing a sterilisation procedure at New Cross Hospital.
Elizabeth Sutton says she attended an appointment at the Wolverhampton hospital in January 2022 to be sterilised – a procedure that prevents pregnancy by stopping eggs from travelling down the fallopian tubes.
Elizabeth, 34, suffers from hormone-related epilepsy, meaning she is unable to use regular contraception as it will interfere with her hormones and increase the risk of a seizure. For that reason, she said, female sterilisation was her "only option".
According to the NHS website, female sterilisation is a permanent method of contraception which is said to be more than 99 per cent effective at preventing pregnancy. It also says that there is a small risk that the operation will not work.
Elizabeth, who works as a phlebotomist, said there were no problems during the procedure, but missed her period six months later.
