Ectopic pregnancy is often discovered in which month due to lack of suspicion?

• A. Third Month
• B. Second Month
• C. First Month
• D. Fourth Month

Answer: (B)

Ectopic pregnancy is typically identified around six weeks of gestation, which falls in the second month. Early in the first month, pregnancy signs and symptoms are very non-specific and it’s easy to overlook an ectopic, so suspicion remains low. By about six weeks, though, ultrasound and pregnancy-marker trends become more informative: you can often see that the pregnancy is outside the uterus or note abnormal hCG patterns that don’t rise as a normal intrauterine pregnancy would. That timing makes discovery more likely in the second month, before rupture occurs. If it isn’t detected by then, the risk of complications increases as the pregnancy progresses, which is why most robust detection happens around this early, but not first, window.