If you and your partner have decided that you do not want any more children, you may be thinking about a permanent form of birth control called sterilization.
Female sterilization is called tubal ligation, while male sterilization is called vasectomy.
Both require an operation. This recording is about tubal ligation. For more information on vasectomy, please listen to that recording, which can be found in the operations section of your AudioHealth Library Directory. In a tubal ligation, the fallopian tubes the tubes that carry the egg from the ovary to the uterus are blocked in one of a variety of ways, which prevents the egg from going into the uterus each month. Therefore, when sperm enter the uterus through sexual intercourse, no egg is present to be fertilized.