A family from Shikoti village in Kakamega County has been stunned after a woman got pregnant despite her husband having undergone a vasectomy.
Medgclay and Beryl, aged 36 and 33 respectively, had three children when they agreed that Medgclay would undergo vasectomy mid-last year.
The patient argued that he adopted vasectomy after getting three children in a quick sequence between 2020 and 2022 when the pandemic forced employees to work from home.
“I felt like we have always left family planning to women, and so after we got three children, I wanted to take the responsibility and go through the procedure myself,” he told the media.
Against his expectation, the father of three started enjoying his marital responsibilities even better, according to the wife. Dr Ochieng, who also underwent vasectomy 15 years ago explained that the patient should have returned to the hospital for three months in order for the doctors to establish the operational success.
"Three months after vasectomy, the doctors would have conducted what is known as semen analysis which would have let the doctors know whether the process was successful or not," Dr Ochieng explained.
The two doctors agreed that the patient must have errored in following the instructions which we issued to him after the medical procedure. “I felt like we have always left family planning to women and so after we got three children I wanted to take the responsibility and go through the procedure myself,” Medgclay told Citizen Digital.
His wife says he was however sceptical of the decision; “I was afraid it would affect our sexual life negatively but I realised it even got better!”
Twelve months later, the two are now expecting their fourth child in June this year without knowing what happened to the exercise they believed would help them plan their family, especially during a difficult economic time.
"Immediately after getting three kids, my wife and I agreed to take up a family planning method that best suited us. I saw it wise that I take up the responsibility as a man and engage doctors who would advise on the best option.
"Doctors operated on me and did a vasectomy, a permanent and irreversible process. The vasectomy was done on July 12, 2022, and the doctors told me that I would be safe after 20 conjugal exercises or three months," the man recounted.
A non-governmental organization in Western Kenya was said to have wholly funded the medical operation.
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