Not sure where this goes..... Sterilised during CS?.......

[Zephyrcat]

My consultant gave me this option this afternoon and and said I had to decide by my 37 week appt when I get booked in for my CS.

It sounds like a good idea. Dp isn't keen on getting a vasectomy and as i'll be in theatre anyhow it seems the simple option.

BUT I don't know anything about the procedure etc. He also said that I have to be 200% sure because once I decide I can't go back - for example if something,God forbid, was to go wrong whilst delivering this baby, I couldn't say mid op that I didn't then want to be sterilised. It would be too late.

Has anyone had it done? How did it go? Did it make any difference to your recovery from the cs?

there is a very small chance that the ends could join back up...there is obviously considerable swelling post pg! But the risk isn't 20%

Thank you all for your advice and comments. Now I've had time for the reality of it to kick in I'm almost certain that it's not the way to go. I think that going with a vasectomy is a better route as, like Hockeymum says, it can be tested and has a higher 'success' rate - I can't risk getting pg again as a way of finding out!!! I haven't told dp that I was given the option because he will try to convince me to do it rather than him get it done I would imagine!! Also although a reversal is not 100% with dp, in the event that for some unknown reason we were to have another, with the sterilisation I was told there is no reversal option at all, it is final.

woman have got pg even after heir husband got the all clear! and it wasn't the milk man

Yuo shouldn't plan a sterilisation if you even think you might want another....you should think of all sterilisations as irreversable