Have you discussed ways you can make sure your family is complete the way it is?
Thirty-three percent of Australian families had a vasectomy.
Now that you and your wife have a few kids, are you ready for “the snip?”
When it comes to contraceptives, there are basically 3 classifications: the snip, other male contraceptives, and female centric contraceptives.
Here’s what some people say about vasectomies:
It only took 20 minutes. Sure, I felt like I had been kicked in the balls, but the pain didn’t last too long. You need to remember that you have to use condoms for a while, until the sperm canal is completely clean, but then you are 99.9% safe.
After everything my wife has gone through with the pregnancy and delivery of our 4 kids it was the least i could do. The sex is the same, it makes no physical difference. Any problems are all in the mind.
And then there are others who aren’t so fond of the vasectomy:
I would feel castrated, impotent, I wouldn’t be able to father kids and that’s fundamental to me being a man.
A vasectomy assumes that my present relationship will be my last. One of the good things about being a man is that you can have a child at pretty much any time and who says I won’t want one at 60?
This is what the women say…
As a woman who had a hysterectomy at a very young age, I find the whole loss of womanhood ludicrous. The ability to produce offspring is not what defines you as a man or a woman. Men should step up to have a vasectomy.
But vasectomies are 99.8% safe. What about the other 0.2%?
When weighing your contraception after you’ve had kids, there are 3 questions you need to ask:
Is it reliable? Is it safe? Is it reversible?
So, for the brave, what contraception alternatives did you consider, and what did you end up deciding on? Is it worth it? Is it reliable, safe, and reversible?
Contraception After Kids: Weighing the Alternatives [The Father Life]
