as i am reading the article, i see that my dream of being a mother is something i can look forward to. i myself only have one ovary and i was thinking the same thing like, i can't have kids. but i have been reading the articles and i see that i do have a chance of having kids. to all the women who have lost an ovary and became pregnant i congratulate you all on that because yes, i have tried like three times and nothing, and i have tried recently so now i'm playing the waiting game. but thank you ladies for allowing me to say i have high hopes now that with just one ovary i too. can become pregnant. thank you

i want to know if i can have kids. i have the same thing you all have :( and i want one bad.

My name is Brittany. I'm a 17 year old senior in high school, but in March of my 11th grade year, I was rushed to the emergency room for an emergency gallbladder surgery. When they went in to take out my gallbladder, they found a basketball sized cyst on my left ovary. The doctor said it weighed about 50 pounds and you couldn't really tell that I had ever had a ovary there in the first place. My parents didn't really want to tell me what all had been found during my surgery, because they know how much my future means to me. I want to be able to get older and have 4 or 5 little miracles of my own, but after the surgery I had to have about 7 months ago, I'm pretty scared that I won't be able to have any kids at all. I try to keep my feelings about this hidden from everyone else so they don't know how I really feel about it, and when the subject does get brought up, I just smile and bear it. I didn't know there was that many other people in the world who have went through the same thing I went through, but it makes me feel a little better to know that some of you have had God and blessings on your side, to be blessed with children. Keep everyone else going through this or people who have already gone through this in your prayers! Thank you for caring.

i go to the doctor friday. I may have a tumor on my left ovary. i'm scared as heck. i don't know what they do if i do have a tumor, or if i can have kids or not, help me please someone. i had two kids before. both of them didn't make it. :(

I put my question here before to ask if i can get pregnant or not because i have only one ovary. i'm here to say that i'm pregnant now, thank God! i'm 21 years old and i had surgery to remove ovary when i was 13 years old.

so believe in God and don't ever give up.

i just lost my baby yesterday. i was six weeks pregnant. my man has five kids. i have none now. that's the second baby i lost in two years. i am 18 soon be 19 and i have a cyst on my left ovary about 5cm. I don't know if that's big. can that be the reason why i lost my baby? Help me!

my name is kaylyn. i'm 18 years old and i had my right ovary removed at the age of 9. i have been trying to have a child but it seems to me like i don't have any chances. please help me out.

I have a question, if a woman has only one ovary and does not have periods, can she still get pregnant?

Anon46940, look at post no. 27. The woman does not determine the sex of the child--the man does. Your ovaries are going to have X chromosomes no matter what. It is the sperm cell that unites with your egg cell that determines the sex of your baby. If the man contributes a sperm cell with an X chromosome, your baby will be a girl. If he contributes a Y chromosome, the baby will be a boy. People who say these kinds of things are just spreading old wives' tales.

i had my left ovary out when i was 18 after i just had my baby boy and then i got pregnant again with another boy, but a lot of people are telling me i won't be able to have a baby girl. i was just wondering if that's true?

Of course you can! my mum had me like that. She had one ovary taken before she had me! Miracle huh?

Anon44247: No, this is not true. This is because your egg does not determine the sex of your baby. Your husband's sperm determine's the baby's gender. Women only produce eggs with X chromosomes. However, men produce sperm with either an X or a Y chromosome. If the sperm cell with an X chromosome unites with the egg, the baby will be a girl. If he contributes a sperm cell with a Y chromosome and it fertilizes the egg, then the baby will be a boy. So your one ovary has no bearing on the sex of any of your future children.

my ob told me i only have one ovary after she did the caesarean operation on me for my second baby girl. me and my husband longed for a boy but old folks say, if the only ovary i have can only produce a girl then i don't have chance of having a boy. It is true?

i'm 30 years old. i got married in 2007. now i want to plan a baby so is this a right time for me? is my age is the problem for pregnancy?

Hi, yesterday my 16 year old daughter had to have her ovary on the left side removed due to cysts and her fallopian tube on the right hand side removed due to problems caused from having her appendix out a few years ago. What are her chances of getting pregnant in the future ?

hi, I became pregnant with my daughter in 2006 and they found a 11cm cyst on my left ovary. When my daughter was 9 mos old I had my left ovary removed and a month later became pregnant with my son. We are now trying for our third baby!

Hello ladies. my name is ashley and I'm 22 years old. I do not have any children. In May, I was diagnosed with a cyst on my right ovary of 11 cm and I had to get surgery. I had to have my right ovary removed and right tube removed. I hope and pray I turn out to be one of these miracle stories I've been reading up here. Is there any thing I can do or take to minimize losing my other ovary and increase the possibility of having a perfectly healthy baby?

yes i had my first baby in 2008. he was a blessing because I almost died many times but i was worrying if i can still have kids because everybody is telling me i can't.

I had my left ovary and fallopian tube removed 5 years ago, when I was 17 due to an ectopic pregnancy. I am now 22 and I'm pregnant. I'm in my sixth month, and I'm still shocked to be pregnant because my doctor told me I would never have children. I just feel like God has the final say so on everything.

All of the stories I've heard on here are nothing short of amazing. If you really want to have a baby, no matter what your case may be, go for it!

I'm not a statistic anymore, I'm a real miracle in the making. :)

Hi ladies. In 2004 i had a cyst the size of a cantaloupe. it was growing on my ovary and it had to be removed. i got married in 2006 and now am pregnant. I thought i wouldn't be able to have a child, but thanks to god, he has blessed me!

i am now 25. when i was 11 years old, i had a tumour on my right hand side ovary. so the doc has to remove my right hand side ovary. i underwent few chemotherapies..i got my first period when i was 18. even that through medication of progyluton i took for a few months. now i dont, and since i stopped taking it, i didn't get my period too. do i have a chance to be pregnant? i last got my period almost two years ago.

I have had two kids. and at the age 20 my doctor told me i need to get an tubaligation. because my first was stillborn. The doctors worked on her about 20 min. they pronounced her dead. 45 min after i held her, and gave her a kiss on cheek. then out of nowhere my daughter started crying. she is now going on 12 years old.she was a miracle. then i had my son 2 years after that when i was twenty. i had low placenta and labor was fine. after i had him the doctors rushed him out.. i didnt know where he was. i thought the same thing happened to him like my daughter.. the doctors sent me home 2 days later and wouldn't talk to me. they treated me like i was a crack head.. i dont smoke or drink. anyway i didnt see my son until he was a week old. and the doctors told me i needed a tubaligation.. because i could die if i get pregnant again..well anyway i had it done. my son is now 9 then on my 27 birthday february 16 2007 . i was unconscious in my sister's bathroom. at 10 pm they did emergency surgery took my right ovary it was full of blood 5 lbs. and enlarged it. i am ok really.. docter told me that it was birth control that caused the cyst to enlarge.. i havent been on birth control. i recently got married in july last year. and my auntie keeps telling me, i still could get pregnant with one ovary. Is that true? i am terrified to even use birth control.. i was told by my mom that i had a 50/50 chance that i wouldn't make the surgery.I had to have my sister present during surgery in case i needed a tranfusion.I know it has been two years and a half. but my auntie keeps telling me i still could get pregnant i dont believe her. not one bit for the last year she is still telling me that. how if i am sterile and an ovary gone..?can someone talk to me? i've been looking up tubaligation and chances of pregnancy. half of website say ten years after it is possible and some tell me it is effective and cant get pregnant.. if i do it will be a miracle, but i wont sweat it.

I'm 15, and a few months ago I had to have my ovary and fallopian tube removed on my left side because of a very large tumor connected to the ovary. I was just curious as to whether my chances of pregnancy were less that one with two ovaries. I also have sort of irregular periods now, and I'm wondering if that's a sign of a reduction of fertility..? Or even worse, early menopause? >.<

hi, i'm 21 years old, i got married 3 months ago and thinking of delaying pregnancy for 8 to 12 months. i'm hesitant because till this day we used (saftey period) to delay pregnancy

but i wonder if its just the reason i didnt get pregnant or because i had a surgery ( removeing me right ovary when i was 13)

what do you advise me ??

to try to become pregnant soon ? or just wait ??

Hi Ladies. Have hope... I had my left ovary removed at age 13 due to a football size cyst. I'm 30 now and have two kids with another on the way.

I recently learned that I have had one of my ovaries cut into when I had surgery for an acute pain that turned out to be a cyst that ruptured. When they opened me up, the doctors found the cyst, on my ovary (which side I do forget) and they removed it (size of an apple).

I have never tried to have another child, I am a mother of two daughters ages 14 and 18. I have a new man in my life, and we are thinking of becoming parents together. He has no children I am now 41 and we have been not using any birth control methods for approximately 4 months now with no luck. Reading some of the prior posts has made me feel hopeful.

When my doctor sent me for a vaginal ultrasound in Sept 2008, and the tech noticed some of my ovary removed, she alerted me. I did not know - I was never told during that surgery so many years before that part of this was removed when taking out the cyst. I was told in 2008, by a woman who was doing the ultrasound on me. She was shocked when I told her I did not know it was cut into (some of that ovary was removed to retrieve the cyst). This surgery was roughly 4 years back. I still have normal periods but this year no baby- yet.

Part of me worries and part thinks, I will be a mother to another child soon. I have been told by the woman who did the ultrasound that I can have children with one full ovary, and the other has some ovary left. My tube is intact since I was never told different.

I would also like to mention, there could be so many other health reasons for not being "instantly pregnant". One can be due to being overweight, I believe it is POCS=Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (look it up) I for one do not have that but my dear friend did, and for a very long time, she was required to loose weight first. She was not able to loose weight right away, but with a few years = she did loose forty pounds and suddenly she was pregnant! She now has a one year old baby girl!

So, please do not give up hope. Also, I have been looking into Chinese medicine. Find a good Chinese Medicine Doctor or Acupuncturist. Try Chinese bitters. I *hope* I helped someone out there. Pray for me. -The 41 year old mother of two teens who so wants to be a mother all over again. I live in New England.

I had to have my right ovary removed during a surgery after my son was born. Now my husband and I want to start TTC within the next few months and this article has given me even more hope! Thank you!

Ladies who posted -- thank you so much for your positive stories about being able to conceive with one ovary! I had a cyst removed 3 years ago on my left ovary (grapefruit size) and am currently in my 3rd month TTC. You've given me more hope!

i had to have my left ovary and tube removed, in 2007, due to a tumor that was the size of a grapefruit. i had it for 4 years and was pregnant while it was there. the bigger my daughter got, the bigger the tumor. me and my hubby are talkin bout have another baby, but haven't been actively trying just yet. i still have reg periods, but have never been able to tell when ovulation is present. not sure if the egg came from the left ovary before/while the tumor was there. doc says it looks promising. all we can do is hope for the best!!!

hi everyone, well i had a ectopic pregnancy when i was 19 yrs old. i was told that a piece of my tube was removed so since that time i have had a total of 11 miscarriages that i know of and every time it's the same thing. as soon as i find out that i'm pregnant the same day or next day i start bleeding and well lose the baby. i don't know if it's because i get too excited or stress about not losing the baby.

so the last time i got pregnant was march 2008 and ever since i have not used protection. i'm about to be 25 and this bothers me everyday that every month i try and i get no results. i really want a baby and i feel that my husband will leave me if i don't give him a child. i don't know what else to do. i've been to different doctors some have actually said to me i don't know what to do i've never heard of anything like this before...i really feel like this is taking over my life! people say to stop thinking about trying to have a baby that it will only stress me even more, but i feel like it's a sickness that i have. i really hate to say it but do i need help?! and it hurts me even more because my younger brother is on his second child and i see how happy my family gets with the kids...i don't know what to do

my left ovary was removed about a year ago due to a very lary ovarian cyst that weighed approximately 35 pounds. my right ovary of course still remains, and my surgeon and doctors told me that i was still perfectly capable of conceiving. but what if they were wrong? i mean i am very young, i'm 19 yrs old and i was 18 when my surgery took place. my fiance and i have actually tried to concieve(call me crazy) and nothing has worked. we eventually stopped trying.

could my surgeons have been wrong, or if not, how would i go about conceiving in the future?

you can surely still get pregnant even if you only have one ovary. my left ovary was taken out when i was only 13yrs old due to ovarian cyst. i was told my chances of conceiving were slim. but low and behold i am 28 yrs old now, with a 16month old daughter and am currently 37weeks pregnant with a boy.

I'm 20 years old and I've been dealing with a growing cist on my left ovary which is the size of a baseball. Now I have to get my entire left ovary removed. Also when I was a baby I had to have a colostomy. I am wondering if this is going to cause complications in having a baby? Any advice is needed. Thank you

I had my left ovary removed and now my husband and I have been trying for a baby for the past year and nothing has happened. I was wondering what I should do?

I lost an ovary and fallopian tube due to a ruptured ectopic pregnancy when I was 21. I had my first child at 38 after one single act of unprotected sex. I had my second child at 40 after 1 single act of unprotected sex. My husband and I have scary fertility levels. He got a vasectomy, and I still make him wear a condom during my ovulation. :) I am now almost 47 with completely regular periods still. So, I think that losing an ovary does not need to mean a reduction in fertility or early menopause

I only have one ovary (due to an ectopic pregnancy), and have the same question.

Hello, I have one ovary removed and would like to know in addition to the information provided will I run out of eggs before a certain time (i.e age 30)? In other words, do I have a certain number of years left before conception is impossible because of the removal. I ask this because if one has 400 eggs during menstrual lifetime this means I have less eggs because one ovary is removed?