Advice needed for soon to be SAHD... Please help!! My husband and I have decided that he needs to be the one to stay at home with our 8 month old son. I make more money than he does so for financial reasons we decided he needs to stay home. He feels like a failure because he can not be the provider for the family. If there are any of you out there that have been through this or have any advice to give we would appreciate it. I want to help him through this time, but I'm not sure how to help him cope with this. We are both nervous about this new transition, especially since neither one of us had good father figures in our lives.

I am planning on getting a vasectomy - first appointment with the urologist is tomorrow - but now that I am researching it I am starting to get cold feet over reports of severe and ongoing post vasectomy pain, granulomas and pressure.
Many of you have written candidly about having a vasectomy, but after the initial recovery period how much discomfort or other side effects have you experienced? Any resources you can point me to would be appreciated as well.

I love my daughter, but now I have a very limited, narrow opportunity to find employment. At 50, it's a challenge to find any job and with 18 years of being a housedad, people think its great that I did that, but no one will give me a job. I would suggest that housedads phase out of the job of raising baby about the time first grade rolls around, and get back into a carreer, so that you have a life 10 years later, versus being unemployed like myself!

http://www.mangroomer.com/default.aspx

Anybody hear of this? Does anybody use it? Does it work?

Figured I'd try out this anonymous thing by asking about anyone's experiences with vasectomies. I'm 33, and have one child and my wife and I agree that we're OK with not having another one (I'm an only child, so it doesn't seem at all odd to me). Rather than her continue to take the pill I've been seriously thinking about getting a vasectomy........