Permanently Decided: Salpingectomy Sterilization Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe bilateral salpingectomy as permanent contraception. Writers describe why they asked — certainty since their teens that they did not want children, families that felt complete, a pregnancy with HELLP syndrome, medicines unsafe in pregnancy, mental health that a pregnancy could unsettle, a gene change or a sister's cancer diagnosis — and the asking itself: doctors who refused on grounds of age or childlessness, a hospital that would not perform it on religious grounds, insurance approvals and mandatory waiting-period forms. There is the operation: the keyhole incisions, the gas pain lodged in the shoulder, the removal done at a third caesarean or alongside surgery for another problem, old clips finished off, a coil taken out at the same time. Writers describe being back at a desk on day nine, periods that carried on unchanged, and certainty that held, sometimes with a little sadness alongside. Later chapters hold a husband's view from the bedside, nurses who have watched hundreds of these operations, faith and family reactions, self-pay and payment plans, a pathology report that surprised everyone, and a surgery that was cancelled.

Who it's for

For anyone considering permanent contraception, people who have been refused sterilisation and want to hear from those who persisted, partners and parents trying to understand the decision, and couples weighing it against vasectomy.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 259 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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