Pregnant with IUD in place. Urgent advice/info needed!
Not sure if this is posted in the right spot....
I've just gotten off the phone to my sister in Canada and she is really stressed because last week she found out that she is 8weeks pregnant but she still has a copper IUD in place. She had an ultrasound and apparently the IUD is lodged in her uterus and can't be removed. The Dr said that the IUD has to be removed for the sake of her own health but in doing so the removal would probably cause a miscarriage. My sis got another opinion and the second Dr said that it would be ok to leave the IUD in place and continue with the pregnancy but the chance of having a miscarriage anyway from the IUD being left there is greater than 50% and there's a possibility she could miscarry in the second trimester.
So my sister is facing a really hard decision, whether to continue with the pregnancy and risk late miscarriage and complications or have a termination and remove the IUD. She has to make her mind up by Saturday. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be anyone she can talk to in Canada (she's an aussie citizen, she's just there travelling) and the midical advice she's been given is quite limited. I told her to see an OB (the two Dr's she saw were GPs) but since she isn't canadian the medical expenses for specialist appointments are quite high and she doesn't have much money.
I'm really sad because when i spoke to her today she said she was leaning towards having a termination because she's scared of losing the bub down the track. I think she's feeling pressured to go this way because so far the advice she's been given is that the pregnacy will end in miscarriage anyway. She is feeling really lost becuase she and her boyfriend would really like to keep the baby but she's not sure whether to risk the pregnancy and have to go through a miscarriage or just terminate now. If she did keep the bub she'd come back to Aus in the next few weeks and she'd have better care here where her pregnancy could be monitored more closely.
She asked me to research it for her so I've been googling like mad trying to find some info for her becuase i want her to have all the facts before she makes a decision. I'd like to hear from anyone who's been in a similar position or knows someone who's been pregnant with an IUD. Any info/websites you may know of would be really helpful. Does anyone know the chances of having the IUD removed and the pregnancy still being viable? She has a copper IUD not a hormone one so there's no risk of birth defects.
thanks
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she must be devasted)
My sis found it very very hard to make a decision but in the end she decided to end the pregnancy. Her decision was swayed alot by the fact that she's travelling and so she didn't have proper access to specialists etc and was scared to continue with a high risk pregnancy in a different country. She saw two doctors and one said to terminate the pregnancy and the other encouraged her to keep the IUD in and continue with the pregnancy. I know the decision to terminate tore her apart but the decision was her's and she weighed up the risks and decided that the risk was too big to take with her current lifestyle. 
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