I'm looking at it and I'm in total shock and my husband's on the other side of the locked

door and he knocks on it and he goes, are you okay?

And I'm mown.

Like, outcomes is mown and I'm like, no.

Sarah was looking at a pregnancy test and the reason she was so shocked is because her

husband had just had a vasectomy.

This is the longest shortest time.

I'm Andrea Cylensi.

Over the years, this nine-year-old podcast has given a lot of air time to women's fertility

and women's birth control.

But isn't it about time we hear what it means when family planning is up to dad?

Today on the show, the birth control method for testicle havers.

It's permanent yet reversible.

We don't even have that technology for tattoos yet.

We're talking about the vasectomy.

We asked and you guys started writing in with your vasectomy stories.

They were fun and surprising and reminded me of what all birth control has in common.

With family planning, things don't always go according to plan.

Sarah was really excited about the vasectomy.

She'd given away all of her maternity clothes, the newborn onesies, the bassinet.

Everything her youngest was out growing, went to friends and co-workers.

Her home was feeling less cluttered, life-freeed up, lighter.

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