ILX Parenting 6: "Put Some Goddamn Pants On Before You Go Outside!" is a thing I say now

had a blissful 0.5 seconds this evening when I'd closed the bedroom door having put the 3-year-old to bed and the baby was asleep in the crib.
the possibilities! I could have a sit-down!

then the drop - simultaneous baby crying and kid yelling 'mummy I need a wee and a poo'

;_;

Had a vasectomy. Anyone else done the same?

Had it done Friday morning circa 9am. Spent the rest of the day watching films home alone, but yesterday actually did a lot of (very slow, gentle) walking, including going into a bike shop to buy N a new bike, where, amazingly, I bumped into the dr who'd performed the vasectomy at the counter. He was impressed I was up and about.

48 hours post surgery and my scrotum is pretty much back to normal size, I've not had painkillers since yesterday lunchtime. One gentle accidental headbut in my nethers by N aside, I've had no pain - aware that something happened but it doesn't hurt.

In actual kid news the last 24 hours has seen Casper roll from back to front and Nora learn to ride a pedal bike.

Had a vasectomy. Got an infected testicle. Walked like an agonised cowboy for 2 weeks.

One of the few upsides to unexplained infertility is not having to think about a vasectomy

I was snipped shortly after kid 2. It was fast and easy and I have really found it liberating. A whole area of anxiety and expense and hassle just... gone.

in order: congrats, double congrats, ouch, commiserations, good job

I should add that my wife is also glad of not having to worry about BC and attendant hassles. (Though I guess one should insert a mailman joke here.)

think my time is coming pretty soon

ive heard enough 'vasectomy gone wrong' stories to scare me off for good, but we don't have any more room in the house, so....

can't believe you guys are so chill about having your dicks cut off but kudos all the same, maybe i'll feel the same way after becoming a dad

Ha, there was no 'cutting' involved in mine. Shall i go full ILTMI? Yeah, why not.

S there are two ways of doing a vasectomy; scalpel, or non-scalpel. Scalpel is as it sounds; open the ballsack, stick a knife in, cut the cables.

Non-scalpel basically involves a tiny soldering iron. They burn a little hole, bring the cable up to the hole, and then, in my doctor's words 'ruin' the cables one by one through the same whole. Harder to reverse, I'd imagine, but less invasive, quicker.

Four days later I'm tender and bruised, but feeling alright. Worked from home on the sofa yesterday, but walked 4km in to work this morning.

So no 'vasectomy gone wrong' horror stories here. Still early days though.

Oh, and there's a tiny, cauterised hole in my ballsack.

Had mine in 1990, no regrets. I had the version where my dick wasn't cut off.

i did it too. the procedure itself was not exactly painless for me but the recovery was pretty easy.

ive heard they give you a valium ahead of time which is pretty nice of them

If no dick is cut off it’s not a true vasectomy

Mine was non-scalpel but didn't involve a soldering iron or cauterization.

Local anaesthetic, tiny incision made with tiny scissors; the doctor fished out the requisite plumbing and went snip snip, clip clip. Tucked everything back inside and sewed the incision back up with one or two dissolving stitches.

Dang does this always involve going inside the nutsack?

That's where the magic happens, so yeah.

for years my wife was like "get a vasectomy" then I scheduled one and she read through all the stuff about the procedure and got scared and told me not to do it. *shrug emoticon*

Dang does this always involve going inside the nutsack?

medical professionals call it the 'fantastic voyage' iirc

They can now zap kidney stones with lasers noninvasively; surely some time in the future they won't need to do any scrotal violence.

Honestly men, compared to decades of IUDs / pills / diaphragms / condoms / Norplant or whatever (not to mention menstruation itself), a vasectomy (performed in the time it takes to watch an episode of Seinfeld) is NBD.

I was waiting for that. Thank you.

b-b-but our precious family jewels

we talkin' with commercials or without

Menstruation is a drag but if anything saving my dong eliminates a not bad number of those

lol frogbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvirak5biLM

The cauterising method used here, too. The smell of singeing scrotum is not one I'll forget.

The smell of victory

Guys come back to us ladies when you have that pain 4 days a week erry month :P

(but on that note, I cant recommenmd Implanon highly enuff - havent had a period for like 2 years and it has been AWESOME)

yeah, my wife was on implanon for like 15 years before we starting trying for a baby and had like maybe three periods during that entire time, she fucking hated it when she had it taken out and the periods returned

The cauterising method used here, too. The smell of singeing scrotum is not one I'll forget.

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was wondering about this but decided not to ask

yup same here
a friend had a varicose vein burnt out or whatever they do and he described the smell in great detail

https://i.imgur.com/ZMl9Jah.gif

to be fair the smell of babby being born is not so great, or so I hear

I knew a doctor about 20 yrs ago who performed his own vasectomy. I have no idea if that is normal. He was a weird dude.

D:

I hate these Friday night socials where you’re supposed to mix and mingle and act all chummy with the other parents. I should really go live in a cave somewhere.

depends on the parents, I find.

I had a baby born in my kitchen and did not notice any unpleasant smells. I had my scrotum cauterised and did not notice any unpleasant smells.

Are you Abbott?

How, how, how are children so ridiculously tired at 6pm that they act up in every way possible and then some, yet still aren't asleep 3 hours after putting them to bed?

and God forbid they fall asleep in the car for 30 seconds because then it's game over for any kind of going to sleep before 11pm.

and babies be waking up every 2 hours day and night.

maniacs, all of them

Disgusting savages

tiny jerks

I’m so done with the baby stage.

my daughter finished this high school this week. I think she was 4 when I started posting here. my son starts high school in the fall. #3 is in middle school. they're not babies for long!

I started a "recommend colleges for my daughter" thread back when and this Wednesday she turns 30.