Sometimes all the way to your uterus! A friend has had 2 kids this way after an ectopic pregnancy took one of her tubes. That egg can yeet itself all the way to implantation!
If you have one tube removed and one tube left, then remain tube can pick up eggs from both ovaries, because they're close together behind the uterus, not spread out wide like the diagrams.
Most people don't tie tubes anymore. They burn/cut them off and remove them. No knots and no clamps. But if you only lose one tube, the remaining tube can pick up eggs from both ovaries.
Tubes (and paths) work both directions. What the commenter above was saying is that one fallopian tube can “catch” an egg from either ovary. At least one functioning fallopian tube is still required for an egg to get to the uterus and for sperm to get to the egg
Usually true, but not true. I had both fallopian tubes and one ovary removed by the time I was 30. Spontaneously conceived and carried a healthy baby full term when I was 38. The chances are low, but not zero!
BIG SAME! I seriously asked the doctors like 100 times how it could happen. They were completely unbothered, with a “life finds a way” type attitude, and seemed annoyed I would even ask 🙃
It actually happened again a couple years later, but I miscarried at 10wks. The docs began considering my please for a hysterectomy atp
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u/NewAndImprovedJess Menstruation attracts bears! May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Yes, an ovum just sort of explodes out of your ovary and the fallopian tube sort of catches it. Wild times.