An ectopic pregnancy happens when the embryo settles anywhere other than the womb’s inner lining. This can lead to life-threatening complications. Most ectopic pregnancies involve an embryo settling in a fallopian tube, but it can also happen in an ovary or the abdominal cavity.
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An ectopic pregnancy will never become a baby. It is where your body tries to grow the preliminary cells but they grow in the wrong place. As the mass of cells becomes bigger the attempt might sputter out on its own and become a miscarriage. There is also the potential that the mass will instead tear through the area where is is growing and cause internal bleeding to the woman.
With proper, and reasonably prompt, medical care one will almost certainly survive an ectopic pregnancy. That medical care will include terminating the pregnancy. If you’re asking “Can you survive carrying an ectopic pregnancy to term?” the answer is pretty much no. One way or the other the pregnancy will almost certainly end, either with medical termination, miscarriage, or the death of the mother. There are a few recorded exceptions, but they are exceedingly rare, and no doctor would recommend voluntarily attempting to carry an ectopic pregnancy to term.