Female sterilisation is touted as a safe and hassle-free means of permanently ridding yourself of having more children, particularly for the over-40s. Although doctors usually tell women that tying your tubes is ‘Band-Aid’ surgery, there’s nothing...
* Make sure you thoroughly consider all other possible methods of contraception before resorting to TL
The purpose of sterilisation is simply to prevent pregnancy, but there are plenty of non-hormonal methods of contraception that carry less risk. More than half of all women seeking TL aren't adequately informed about less-permanent methods (Eur J...