Baby ‘born with mum’s IUD’

Violet Quick, from Utah, in the United States, welcomed her son Rudy with husband John Francis last week.

She posted a video to TikTok to announce her son’s arrival but, in the photo, he was seen clutching her IUD, one of the most effective forms of birth control with a 99.9 per cent success rate.

Other birth control methods such as the pill is only 99 per cent effective if used correctly, and only 93 per cent effective if allowing for mistakes.

In the video that Violet shared of her “IUD” baby, she captioned the clip: “When all the nurses come in to see baby with his IUD.”

Violet revealed in a separate clip she had an IUD in for nine months before she got pregnant, and the reason she chose to take a pregnancy test was because she was nauseous for two weeks and occasionally vomiting.

“I took a test, and it was positive right away, so I took six more and they were all positive,” she told her followers.

“So I went to the ER and I was seven weeks pregnant.”

She told her followers that if their period was late, or they were experiencing any symptoms of pregnancy, to take a test as “somebody had to be that 0.1 per cent”.

If untested, a pregnancy with an IUD can lead to an ectopic pregnancy, which is dangerous for the mother.

An IUD can be safely removed during the first trimester but, after that, it becomes too risky of a procedure with the growing foetus.

In 2017, a photo of a baby holding an IUD went viral on Instagram, with the mother claiming that her Mirena contraceptive had been found behind her placenta.

The photo had since gone viral on social media, with it re-emerging over the years and the child now five years old.

Last year, Dr Sophia Yen, the founder of a birth control delivery company, told AP that the photo was staged.

“It would be impossible for the baby to be born holding the IUD because the foetus grows within an amniotic sac and the IUD can’t get in that,” she said in an email.