What is Sterilisation? | BIRTH CONTROL METHOD

"All the contraceptive methods that I have talked about so far are temporary methods, say if you are using a Copper T, once you remove and the contraception protection is gone and you can conceive. The same way, once you stop the injections or the pills, then the contraception effect is gone and then you can conceive. So they are all temporary method. When you opt for sterilisation, then it is a permanent method where you don’t want to have any more children. So you don’t want to conceive again. So that is why sterilisation is a permanent method It can be done if you have done if you have had a caesarean section for the previous caesarean section and now for this pregnancy all you are going on for a caesarean section, then it can be done concurrently. It is a tubal ligation that is ligation of the fallopian tubes. So it is cut and ligated. So at the time of the caesarean section, it can be cut and ligated. That is one methods. Or you can get it done after delivery, within 3 to 5 days of normal delivery, you can ago for a post-partum sterilisation. If you don’t want it immediately, then you can wait, say if your child is a preterm, and you are very scared that it will affect and if you get sterilised now, you will be wondering whether this child if it gets any problems, then how you are going to face it. So you can get it done what is called as an interval sterilisation or once you get your periods, you can opt for the date and do it later, say after a year or a two, or that is your choice again or that is at a convenient date. But until then you go for a temporary method and go for wat is called as a laparoscopic sterilisation, which is a day care procedure. So instead of ligating the tube, we apply what is called as a falope rings to the tubes, that is the fallopian tubes. That is the laparoscopic method, that is the keyhole surgery and it is a day care procedure and you can wait for the baby to grow up or you can do it during your children’s school holidays. But make sure that you get your periods and inform your doctor and come with the proper investigations and aesthetic fitness and that can be done at a later date, maybe one year or two years. So sterilisation is a permanent method where you don’t want to have any children. So usually couples opt for a sterilisation after 2 children, either immediately, or at a later date, after 1 year or 2 years. So the method may vary from open sterilisation to laparoscopic sterilisation"