Ah yeah that sounds annoying. Luckily I was at 0 first test.
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yes, but he wasn’t supposed to do them all the same night
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so you’re saying there’s a chance!
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Wow that’s gotta be tough, how do you deal with the impact to sleep!? I think the youngest I could conceivably do something like that would be ~10-14 months… get them going with some sleep training and they’re old enough to be pretty dynamic during the day
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Our kids weren’t sleeping for the longest time anyway. 7yo really didn’t sleep through the night until maybe 5. We are used to the sleep impact now, although it’s still terrible.
Babies are easy compared to toddlers. Once they’re mobile, they’re so much more work. I can strap a baby to me and go about my day, for the most part. And they’re super sweet and cute and don’t mouth off to me like my own kids do…
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With my near-7 year old everyone sees her being super well behaved but then I’m like you have no idea how rude she just was to me earlier!!
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vas’d after third bio child, that was enough. No negatives. The only weird thing was the doctor had a medical student observer during the procedure, so he kept manipulating parts of my nether region and exposing them to this person I didn’t expect to be in the room.
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We’re still holding off on doing the snip snip. I’m pretty sure we’re not going to have any (more) kids but I’m not getting rid of the option in case I do change my mind. It wouldn’t change the BC situation either way - I’m on that for the hormone regulation.
Related - I’m about 99% certain my kids think I’m physically unable to produce children (despite telling them otherwise). Mum had a hysterectomy and the projection is strong with that one.
He invited someone to the ball?
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Vasectomy means never having to say you’re sorry
I thought that was what Viagra was for
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it was certainly a spectacular!
That quote happened decades before Viagra
totally forgot about that
I got mine. Wasn’t a big deal. My wife still gives me grief because I got a Vicodin or something similar to help with anxiety/pain, and she lists multiple procedures women have to go through without any sort of pain meds. Says I was a big baby, but the doctor offered and I wasn’t going to say no to drugs.
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I think it’s rather shocking that we are expected to endure IUD insertion (especially the first one if you’ve never had a child) without any sort of pain medication. I’m sure there’s other examples but that one stands out for me.
That was WAY worse than, say, my periodontal surgery where the periodontist was essentially handing out hydrocodone prescriptions like Halloween candy. That was shocking in the other direction. I was like “this is why we have an opioid epidemic!!!”
I’ve had hydrocodone. Didn’t really get much high from it.
Yeah, she’s currently looking into getting an IUD for the first time, and after all the horror stories she’s heard from friends she thinks it’s ridiculous that men get drugs for vasectomy’s but women get nothing for IUDs. I don’t disagree!
Agreed, however - never had an IUD but from what I’ve heard, localized anesthesia are available and sometimes given but it’s dependent on the doctor. Might be many only give if you insist, some may refuse entirely, I’ve read some encourage it off the bat. I can’t say what proportion acts which way and everybody will have an anecdote. Either way the initial shot would also hurt, just surely less.
Valium. Also depends on the doc, this one said he recommends it off the bat, the specialist we’re going to he said they might offer if we ask but don’t typically. Not planning on it. Doc said it initially feels like getting hit in the nuts with a baseball but soon after, nothing.
ah yeah, Valium. Thanks, couldn’t remember the name.