IDAHO MOM GOT PREGNANT ON IUD, BABY PICTURED HOLDING IT
An Idaho woman who got pregnant with an IUD in place posted a TikTok of her newborn son apparently holding it.
Violet Quick gave birth to her son Rudy in January 2023, and the New York Post told her story on February 1, 2023. Quick and her husband, John Francis, married when she was 19, and they were not planning to start a family when she chose an IUD, she told the Post.
Quick had nausea before she took six pregnancy tests, and all of them confirmed she was pregnant, Jezebel reported. An emergency room visit followed, and she learned she was seven weeks pregnant.
“I was completely unaware of what was happening, so I took a test and it came back positive immediately,” Quick said in an interview with the Post.
She said her IUD had not shifted when she became pregnant. The Post said the pregnancy came a little over a year into her marriage.
The video
The Post described the delivery footage as showing Rudy holding the IUD while medical personnel looked on in disbelief.
Quick’s TikTok caption read, “When all the nurses come in to see a baby with his IUD.”
She later made her TikTok account private, but other users’ stitches of the video remained viewable when the story ran.
The odds
Planned Parenthood put IUD effectiveness at 99%, the Post reported. The Associated Press reported that fewer than 1% of IUD users become pregnant during the first year, citing the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Quick said in another TikTok that her IUD was still in place when she became pregnant. “They work for the most part, but someone has to be the 1%, and that’s me and my baby,” she said.
A similar story involving a baby and an IUD drew online attention in Georgia in 2017, the Post reported.
A separate case came up in an AP fact-check about a different mother, Lucy Tyler, and a 2017 image. Tyler told AP a nurse placed the IUD in her baby’s hand after birth, and AP reported that the child was not born holding it. AP also quoted an expert who said an infant could not be born holding an IUD inside the amniotic sac.
The CDC said routine follow-up visits after IUD placement are not required. It said patients may contact their provider about side effects, problems, or changing or replacing contraception.
Quick urged anyone with possible pregnancy symptoms or a late period to take a pregnancy test.
