Conception after a vasectomy reversal - any one know the chances?

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DP had a vasectomy three and a half years ago during his first marriage... now we are getting married and the question of having a baby crops up (currently without real purpose and intent) but from him more frequently as time goes by

I'm 43 and feel if we're going to really think about this it needs to be NOW and not when I'm 45 . So serious talking needs to happen and outcomes of any further surgery need to be understood. As do the implications of ttc at my age.

Is it such a long shot that it would be best not to tease each other with the possibility of it being an option... Don't want the desire to be a mummy again to awaken so irreversibly that I'm haunted by a sense of loss if we can't have a baby.

Do any MNers have experience of conception after a vasectomy reversal - or any dadsnetters have any experience of the proceedure???

www.californiavasectomyreversal.com/pregnancy.html

The thing is, your age could be a significant factor. Perhaps get some advice to assess your fertility as well before considering reversal.

HD had his vasectomy 10 years before his reversal. He was 43 and I was 35 ish at the time of the reversal. We were told we had a low chance of having a baby due to the length of time since his vasectomy, and my age. I was PG within a couple of months.. From dates, I think it must even have been within a month that I actually conceived.

I do recognise this was incredibly lucky though.

Now we have 2 boys. Less than two years between them.

...oh yes and now he's had another vasectomy!!

Chopped to bits poor sod!

Thanks for the link milk and of course that's very, very good advice expat it's such an early stage in thinking about this (but also time sensitive!) that I hadn't even thought about testing my fertility (slaps forehead)...

and marge2 a very happy outcome! great to hear that the reversal was so successful did your DH have a great deal of discomfort after the reversal? DP's kind of gung-ho about the potential pain factor but it's necessary for him to be prepared...

will have a look at the link later when ds gives me the computer back - blardy lego site!!!

He was a bit sore after the reversal, got pretty grumpy. But it very soon went. The second vasectomy was worse though apparently. The doc said it was only the 2nd ever 2nd vasectomy he had done out of thousands and poor DH was so full of scar tissue in the area already that it was quite hard to find what he was looking for. He was in there what seemd like hours, when all the other men seemed to be in and out in no time at all. I was stuck there with two very young kids misbehaving and bored in a doctors waiting room and all these other folks in there all for vasectomies looking at me as if they were thinking 'I can see why you don't want any more!!'

Marge... Thanks so much, strangely enough dp came home from work having already looked up the procedure, he'd be perfectly willing to go for it but it's gutting that here it will cost ?4000 for the reversal, after his divorce we just don't have that kind of money. Our insurance doesn't cover the procedure either so we were both rather last night.

If its really to be though I know the money wouldn't stop us trying to find a way...