Snip Snip (Part 1)

Well, I’ve taken the first step on my vasectomy ‘adventure’! On 14 April, I visited my doctor to enquire about the procedure.

There wasn’t much discussion, to be honest. I explained to the doc that we were expecting our third child, and that we wanted to ensure that we had no more children after this one.

Anyway, their (the Health Service’s) main concerns are that I’m under 30(why?) and that we may change our minds if anything were to go wrong with the pregnancy. Since the pregnancy wasn’t planned, we wouldn’t be trying again if something went wrong. We’ll love this one as much as our other two, of course we will, but it was never our intention to have three kids. The timing won’t matter so much, because the waiting list for vasectomies is so long that baby #3 will be born by the time I have the procedure carried out.

So, our local GP thrust some notes on the procedure to me, complete with gory cross-section diagram. I won’t go into the details, you can find out more about vasectomies here. The local hospital will contact me shortly, and we will probably have the procedure explained in more detail by a surgeon before confirming whether or not to proceed.

The very thought of the procedure still makes me cross my legs. I don’t know if I could manage it under local anesthetic without faiting! Time will tell.