Monday, 21 July 2008
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V Day
by Mama Turtle
Finally, after almost ten years together, some intermittently successful FAM (Fertility Awareness Method) thrown in (with brief early bouts of hormonal birth control in the beginning), and almost five kids later, hubby is going in to be snipped. I've been more than ready for this for a long time, but of course he's taken quite a while to get used to the idea.
Naturally I keep hearing about procedures that don't take (even just this past week a local mom announced a post-vasectomy pregnancy) but I feel pretty confident we'll fall in the majority, and of course we'll do the follow up testing. Papa Turtle is pretty nervous, but I feel confident he'll be fine and it will go well. Quick healing vibes welcome!Would you and your partner ever consider a vasectomy for birth control? Has anyone gotten pregnant after a vasectomy??
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Comments (9)
That's the way we'll go when the time comes....I told my husband way back in the beginning that I'm the one carrying and birthing babies - he'll be the one to take care of it when we're done!
My husband got a vasectomy. I actually was in the doctor's office when it was done for "support". I did get pregnant after BUT that was what we call 'user error'. I got off birth control early and the one time we didn't use a condom before the follow up testing... Yup.
I had a csection so I went ahead and got my tubes tied while they were in there. We are doubled up.
Make sure you have a couple bags of frozen veggies (peas work well). They make the best ice packs. My husband was fairly nervous but he was up and around like normal after 2 days.
We are both still young (I am 22 & my husband is 23) and we only have one kid, but so far we are still sticking with this is the only one we want. We have decided after he hits around four or five, we'll talk about it again to make sure it is completely what we want and we do not have ANY doubts (by then my husband we'll be over 25 too)... and he is getting fixed. I told him I am not going in to get cut open when his is so much quicker and simplier. Haha. I like the way the first lady put it too. I carried the kid, you can be the one that gets taken care of to not have any more! Lol.
@TornadoChaser - My dad had a vasectomy after their third kid was born. But, to use your term, a little 'user error', and they had their fourth kid.
THEN...seven years after the fourth Pratt was born, they decided to get a reversal. Which is why I'm the oldest of 10!
In my family, my wife and I agreed when she was pregnant with our fourth that the time seemed right for her to get a tubal (and, since all my kids were born c-section, they're in there anyway)
@lilwetduckie - That's how my husband put it, because I did all the hard work he would "take one for the team". Haha! The V was all on him, I didn't say a word about it until he said "When we are done, I'll get snipped."
my hubby just got snipped. we have one baby and both agreed when I was pregnant that one was all we wanted/needed. Def have lots of ice packs on hand, mine liked the gel pack type that get cold but not hard frozen.
When I told my husband that I figured we would have a baby every couple years til' I hit menopause his response was "I'm gettin fixed before that happens!" So, I guess when the time comes that we are ready to be done, that is the plan.
We are going to try for one more and then he's getting a v done. I guess because his first wife got her tubal he assumed it was a walk in the park. I was like honey I have had enough knives carving away at me I don't need any new ones. I have been on the Nuva Ring for 6 years nearly and when I went off of it for this deployment it upset my cycle. He wanted to know why I couldn't just keep doing the Ring. I said because its not safe for me at least.
Oh my, i always think any form of vasectomy or tubal ligation is drastic.
:)
I wouldn't do anything like that..