DH is having a vasectomy next month. I was reading the leaflet from the dr surgery and thinking about the threads on here about pain relief and postnatal wards.
DH's leaflet recommends sitting on the sofa doing nothing for at least 2 days, co-codamol and ibuprofen for pain relief.
Yet IME and from reading threads on here, women are having major abdominal surgery or pushing another person out of their bits, being given 2 paracetamol and expected to either look after their newborn 24/7 or drag themselves down endless corridors to visit their baby in special care. I've heard on here about women who've had to put up with bullying from midwives, rubbish or no pain relief and harrassment from other people's partners. Then there's the bounty lady who is allowed to come in and trick women who are vulnerable and in pain to give away their details to be sold to junk mail companies and cold callers.
I'll be giving birth to DS5 this summer and I think I'd rather have a vasectomy instead. I'm beginning to think the NHS hates women for some reason. I also can't help thinking that if women had vasectomies it would be with no anaesthetic and looking after their DC's straight away and if men gave birth they would somehow work out a way of having a VB under general anaesthetic and there would be free nannies for everyone to do all the difficult stuff while the man recovered.
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elliejjtiny · 13/03/2014 12:31
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