Delaney added: “The reason I got a vasectomy is because we didn’t want her to get pregnant again. Not that we didn’t want more babies, we just didn’t want to go through more pregnancies, so that she could spread her wings and devote some more time to herself, which is made very difficult when you have lots of kids.”

He also admits to feeling “a little sad about” about having the vasectomy: “I’ll see a baby, my youngest is almost two and a half, so in his own words now he’s a ‘big boy’. So I hate that I’m not going to make more babies, it sucks.

“But it doesn’t suck as much as the good for why I decided to do it.”

You can listen to the whole interview with Rob Delaney on The Panic Years With Nell Frizzell podcast.

Rob Delaney’s honest words on male fertility are a refreshing listen