I went to see my GP about the snip last week. Needless to say, I was bricking it and expecting some bloke with massive hairy hands to get the rubber gloves out. Instead I got a sweet young lady doctor on her first vasectomy referral. My nerves and her first time - to anyone watching it must have been very funny.
Years ago DP and I have decided on sterilisation as the way forward once our family is complete - no more pill grief- hooray. The time is nigh and I felt it necessary to go and get proper advice while getting over DC3s arrival.(And find out waiting times)
It has to be me getting the snip as I'm not letting DP go through abdominal surgery after what she has been through .
I did some research and male contraception options really suck, pretty much only snip or condom. Pretty poor for the 21th century - if Vasalgel had been out I would have done it for the honeymoon. - That is a campaign for Mumsnetters.
I did like the idea of ancient Greeks sitting on hot rocks as a form of birth control - sounds like a good days fishing to me. However, it could do with some more research and would most likely make a good booster contraceptive method.
There is a lot of info on vasectomy and some of it seems very biased. The pro seems to focus on the surgery which is nominal, really, but seems to forget about the emotional side. And the stats are blurry.
And talking to the lads all you get are the horror stories, bleeding, swelling, pain or she left you to have more kids with another bloke ....
So how about the positive stories. Would those of you have had positive vasectomy stories please share them as you don't seem to hear about them. Some of the details would be interesting as well.