Welcome back to the podcast. No One Told Us. I'm your host, Rachel, and today is a very special episode because we're going to be talking all about men's health, fertility, reproduction, vasectomies. My husband Marley is joining just for a hot sec before I bring on our guests because I really kind of wanted to hear your personal experience with your vasectomy, which you had about eight, six months ago, November.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So what made you want to choose a vasectomy, first of all?

Well, we decided that we were done having kids.

Yeah, for sure.

You and I have had discussions for the entirety of our relationship about your birth control,

how it makes you feel.

I will just say, you know, candidly, men often benefit from women bearing the brunt of

birth control or contraception.

Because I was done, it felt like the right and fair thing to do to absorb some of the burden of what women

and women's bodies endure to regulate birth control. Yeah. So you decided and then once you

landed on that decision or we landed on that decision, actually it really wasn't even ever

a huge discussion. It was just like understood that that was what we were going to do. How long did it take you to like get your appointment, to get seen? What was that process like? I mean, really, it took me coming to the end of my health insurance and doing it right before I left my job. And it wasn't really that I was delaying it for any particular I mean I'm just a

procrastinator by nature but yeah because we waited until letty was a year we we originally had

planned on doing it much sooner than that yeah we wanted to ensure that we were we were that our baby

your pregnancy was healthy that our baby was healthy that we were certainly done with growing our

family and so that there

would be no, like, undoing it. I feel like the narrative around undoing phosectomies is a little

bit misleading. It's not super easy. It's very expensive, and it's not guaranteed. And so we wanted to be

sure. And so we waited until we were sure. Yeah. And so to get the appointment and stuff was easy? It was pretty easy, yeah. Through my health insurance, I think they just really want to make sure that you know what you're committing to. So they ask you a bunch of times, like, are you sure? Are you sure? Yeah yeah sort of like they want to make sure that you know

one of that points they hammered the most was like this is not guaranteed to be reversed because i

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