Most of us have heard stories about people getting pregnant after undergoing a tubal ligation or vasectomy. How often does this happen? Should you worry about a pregnancy after choosing a permanent method of birth control? In the vast majority of cases, the answer is no, you shouldn’t worry. However, it is possible. Statistically speaking, vasectomies are said to fail about .25 percent of the time. This isn’t a large number of births, but this adds up to about 1 in 4000 births, according to Harvard Medical School. The cause of vasectomy failure is a process called recanalization. This happens … Continue reading →