what happens in an ectopic pregnancy?
Normal pregnancies develop inside a woman's uterus. Ectopic means out of place. In an ectopic pregnancy, a fertilized egg attaches to the wrong place in a woman's body. In most ectopic pregnancies, the egg attaches to the woman's fallopian tube. Rarely, ectopic pregnancies can take place in other parts of a woman's body â like on the cervix, ovary, or somewhere else in a woman's abdomen.