How long is the NHS wait for a vasectomy? And how much does it cost if you go private?

[frogs]

And anything else I can tell my dh to encourage him to let a man with a scalpel near his bits?

TIA

Bupa price list . (Can't find a similar thing for Nuffield hospital, but you can always phone your local one, I have a feeling the prices are agreed on a Bupa scale anyway).

Could also phone your local NHS hospital to ask about waiting times?

Frogs, my dh didn't wait very long at all. I forget the exact timing but it was a few weeks rather than months (that was on the NHS).

Tell your dh his sex life will improve because neither of you are fearing an unwanted pregnancy - that should be an incentive! And in our case, it was true too!

my dh is having it done on monday!
they don't do it on the nhs around here. he is having it done at a bupa hospital for £450 all in.

I have bought him snug and supportive jockey shorts in anticipation

will report back with gory details next week if you like?!

I persuaded him by idly saying one day "I'm sure we'd have much more sex if I wasn't so paranoid about getting pregnant", then wandering off and making a coffee.
2 days later he told me he'd been thinking about it and thought he should have the snip! hahahahahha

Ohhh PPH...I'm going to use that line on my DH then.
He goes a funny shade of green at the mention of the V word but the thought of being PG again after this time makes me want to eat my own head.
So it's either he has it snip, clipped and sliced or there won't be any sex.

Pah!!...it's the bloody least he can go for me after giving him 4 sons (well 4 in jan anyway....hehehahah)

PPH -- excellent! Yes, gory details, please.

I'm sick to the gills of having such heavy bleeding, which I'm sure would be less bad if I could only have the coil removed. And after pushing out three 10lb babies and having three different people conducting embroidery on my nether regions and having the coil put in twice, I figure I'm entitled to think it's his turn. Dh of course thinks it's a sinister feminist plot to rob him of his manhood -- every time I've mentioned it so far (quite a few times recently) he's laughed it off. But the time has come for me to cut up rough and read him the riot act.

frogs - I didn't read the riot act bcause I felt that it had to be his decision, I didn't want to push him into anything. But I hated the coil and I won't go on the pill again and basically we have been reduced to condoms which he hates and thinks are as much of a faff as me.

Hence my "we'd have more sex if we didn't have to hassle around with condoms" remark.

Maybe get your coil taken out, insist upon condoms, and then see if he changes his mind??!!!

Anyway I'll update on the great op next week!

lth once the 4th comes, he will be as horrified at the thought of another as you are - it will help

No, not having a fourth. No, no, no. [aaaaargh emoticon]

I have been trying to talk my dh into the snip for ages, but he just thinks it will make him talk with a high pitch voice and want to wear high heels. I have done childbirth twice, it's time for him to have his bits fiddled with.
Julia

wellllllll, he has done it. and has been in bed at home on painkillers since 1.00 this afternoon. apparently they had to do a bit more "rummaging" than usual, so they knocked him out in the end (poor lamb) - he should expect "a bit more bruising than usual".

So I expect he'll stay put in bed for tomorrow and maybe the next day as well.

Poor thing. I have been very sympathetic, and only said "well count yourself lucky you haven't also got something chomping at your nipples every 45 minutes" once

bump.

please can the evening crowd send messages of admiration and goodwill towards my dh who is feeling a little sorry for himself at the moment and wearing a "scrotum sling"
lolol

a poem ont he occasion of your castration.

dear mr peahead
lying in bed
wiht your balls in a sling
you really look soemthing!!

the end
by cod

arf @ cod's ode to MrPeaHead's nuts

BTW, is there a HUGE gap between the 'click here to..' bits and the disclaimer bit on anyone elses pc?

dear mr peahead
lying in bed
your balls are all bruised
and your head is confused

yes here too

( its a thinking space i think)

am snorting in a very unladylike fashion.

I have very unsophisticated tastes in poetry, clearly.

nice to meet you dame malory

trying [unsucessfully at mo] to persuade dh to go for one
might let him read this tomorrow
lol at the sympathy poems for mr peahead
and mrs peaheads atleast you have not something at your nips every 45 min

very entertaining coddy, but shurely in the spirit of mumsnet, it should be a haiku? like

one swift scalpel snip
puts paid to fond thoughts
of even more peahead babes

Having read all the way through this thread I think I may now not send a link to dh after all. Words like "rummaging" and "scrotum sling" are not likely to convince.
Hope PrincePeahead is feeling better very soon PPH, sounds as though he was a bit unlucky.
Hopefully your older children will not open the door to prim and vague acquaintances with a merry shout of, "Don't hug daddy, he had his willy snipped today", as happened to some unfortunate friends of ours...

my DH waited 6 months. he said it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. he had heard some horror stories from the blokes in work but he found it ok.