

I believe this is one of the best ways to do family planning,” says Sharon. We will most probably have his undergo the process after we get our third child. “This is something my husband and I have talked about over and over. She says her husband is open to the idea. She says her husband and her have had discussions around vasectomy. Sharon Mwati, 30, is a wife and a mother of two. And well, even if I underwent the process I don’t think I would ever disclose it to anyone aside from my wife,” says Michael Mulei, 36. Vasectomy is, however, not a comfortable topic for many men. Sperms take a while to be emptied from the tubes hence the tests to be sure they are no more sperms. It can range from Sh15,000 to Sh150,000.Īfter the procedure, the patient is encouraged to go for a sperm test twice in a span of three months to ensure the sperm count has gone down. The only deference being the sperm will not reach the semen. The men who go through vasectomy have the ability to ejaculate even after that and produce semen. This procedure is non-invasive and a safe and effective method of family planning. The process takes about 10 to 15 minutes. In many hospitals, this is an outpatient procedure that mostly require a few days of rest to heal. The procedure is done by cutting and tying the vas deferens tubes keeping sperms out of the semen. Sperms are produced, but they die and get absorbed in the body. Vasectomy is a form of male family planning that ensures that sperms do not get to the semen. Today spouses sit down and make this decision together (some even before the first-born is delivered) where as others have naturally let the women decide how they want to go about it.įor some the husband decides to take one for the team and goes the vasectomy way.

“At first I wondered how I would break the news to my husband but I had to tell him after I began noticing changes in my body,” she said.įamily planning has become more appreciated today than in the past. Of course, I was in denial because I could not understand how I got pregnant. There were no trust issues that one of us had gone astray. Why you need to teach your child independence.Will my children hate me for getting a divorce?.
