It's All I Can Do...

[Bagheera]

I have a hard time even getting a vasectomy (still haven't done this but almost did this once and chickened out).

Dude (and I never say 'dude');

If you know, for sure, that you are all done having kids, then it's one of the best several hundred dollars you'll ever spend. No more birth control worries for either you or your wife, period. No pill side effects for her, no nasty condoms for you: just pure sexual pleasure with no fretting over unwanted pregnancy.

This is coming from a guy who if he even so much as looked at his wife cross-eyed during her ovulation period, she'd get pregnant. Our first child was conceived on our honeymoon; for the next two (planned), my wife was pregnant the instant she or me went off birth control (from the guy's perspective, where's the fun in that!?); and the last was our 0.1% baby (you know, 99.9% effective? he's the other 0.1%). So vasectomy = very sweet, for us.

Yeah, the procedure is uncomfortable, but not terrible. The ride home is not fun, and you are well advised to make a bag of frozen vegetables your very best friend for a couple of days afterwards, but it's worth it.

I also know that it's helped to improve my sex-life. One less worry for either of us.

-- B.