Get Pregnant After a Vasectomy

Video Transcript

"Hi I am Michelle Collins, professor of midwifery at Vanderbilt University. How would you get pregnant after having a vasectomy? Well about five hundred thousand vasectomies are performed annually in the United States. And sometimes, because of life circumstances changing, or men just changing their mind they want to have their vasectomy reversed. Well reversing vasectomy is not quite as simple an operation as the in office procedure to perform the vasectomy. It usually is done under general anesthesia in at least an out-patient center or hospital. It is usually also done by urologist, a urologist who specializes in male urology health. A reversal cost about average of ten thousand dollars, and insurance usually does not cover the cost of a vasectomy reversal. After the vasectomy itself is reversed approximately sixty percent chance that you will be successful in achieving a pregnancy after that time. It can take several months, in fact twelve to eighteen months for a man to have sperm that is present in his semen after the vasectomy is reversed."