I'm a Canadian living in Laos with my Lao wife. We'd like to have a baby but I had a vasectomy many years ago and it's very expensive to have it reversed with no guarantee of success. We are exploring other options such as adoption, or using a sperm bank. My wife isn't keen on adoption (it's a Lao thing) unless the baby is pure falang (farang for the Thai folk) But would use a sperm donor to get pregnant if it was a falang, healthy, educated and looked like me etc.

Does anyone have any suggestions or advice. I've tried other chatrooms, Yanhee Hospital, AEK Udon in Udon Thani, but no one is helping thus far.

Thanks

For info on adoption see the Family forum, I think there is a trhead on it running now and have been others in the past. However I don't think you are likely to be able to arrange adoption of a "pure"farang child here, would have better chance in Canada.

Medically, there is an alternative to vasectomy reversal, which is a procedure to extract your sperm and then inseminate your wife with it. As you may know, after vasectomy you still produce sperm; they simply don't come out in the ejaculate due to the tube which transports them having been severed.

The medical term for this is vasoepididymostomy. It is more expensive than a veasectomy reversal so usually done only if vasectomy reversal tried and failed.

By the way, the success rate for vasectomy reversal variesd with the technique used and is higher for vasovasotomies than for vasoepididymostomies.number of years since the vasectomy was perfromed are also a factor. See http://www.vasectomymedical.com/vasectomy-...cess-rates.html