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Babble, a parenting site, has posted an extensive article about men having kids in their golden years. The piece does a pretty good job of exploring the personal, financial and social aspects of older men having kids via vasectomy reversal. As the father of a vasectomy reversal baby myself, I found the article fascinating.
Another new article cites some interesting statistics that I haven’t seen before, attributed to Dr. Donald R. Pohl, founder of Vasectomy Reversals of Texas…
“…as many as 90 percent of his patients are men who have re-married. About 8 percent feel they “stopped too soon” and want a larger family, and a small percentage, 1-2 percent, lost a child to illness or accident.”
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August 29th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
we are preg again after my husbands vas reversal. It is our 4th preg after the reversal (2 miscarriages). Hope you guys are well!
February 15th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Wow…I stumbled onto your site through Stirrup Queen’s blog list. Firstly, its so awesome that you’re a dad again, congratulations! Secondly, its uncanny – some of the similarities – my husband is currently 52 and we’ve been desperately trying IVF for about 2 years now. Unfortunately, hubby’s vasectomy was abouit 22 years ago and my initial research through Dr Google doesn’t make them good odds. Which is sad because hubby really wants to try a reversal.
Anyways…going to start reading through your site in earnest now. Cheers
S
February 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
p.s. I’ve linked to this site on my blog, in case someone stumbles in that needs a little positivity about vasectomy reversals. cheers, S
July 12th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thank you for sharing your story. After much internet trawling I stumbled upon your blog yesterday, and it gave me renewed hope that things would work out for my husband and I.
Ben had a vasectomy when he was 35, beleiving he was not cut-out for marriage and kids. Fast forward 5 years and things have changed!
We have decided to go ahead with the Vas reversal, and fingers crossed we too have success.
Your blog is a ray of hope amongst the depressing stories and worrying statistics found online.
Wishing you all the best for your parenting adventures.
July 16th, 2010 at 7:46 am
Five years! Sounds like you have every chance of success. Good luck!
March 30th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Good news.. 28years my hubbies had been done for now after a succesful reversal I’m pregnant. Everyone is different and it also depends on the surgeon, I beleive we had the best..
March 31st, 2011 at 8:10 am
Awesome. Wow, 28 years. I wonder what the record is! Congrats to you both.
July 5th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
My husband (59 years old) had a reversal 2 weeks ago today! His vasectomy was 21 years old. We went to Dr. Gatewood in FL and had a wonderful experience. His record is 38 year old vasectomy… Congratulations to you and yours! We are praying for the same outcome!
March 24th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Yes. Our reversal failed. But the experience with Gatewood was a bigger failure. Misinformation, bogus statistics, and complete disregard post surgery. I never heard a cover your A$$ speech like the one I got 12 months after surgery. Had no interest in trying a second reversal. This all after “it couldn’t have gone better” immediately after surgery. RUN!
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