The doctor chatted with me before my vasectomy, asking how many children I have and their ages. When I said "5, 2, and 0" he made sure that the 0 represented a

The doctor chatted with me before my vasectomy, asking how many children I have and their ages. When I said "5, 2, and 0" he made sure that the 0 represented a child who had been born, not a pregnancy. He did not want perform a vasectomy on a man who wanted to have three children but whose 3rd child might miscarry. I explained that I had 3 born children, and he then did the operation.