after a rather uneventful couple of weeks, we have some news and a slight update. well, i got my period last week so i am (obviously, again) not pregnant. but this was no surprise and no disappointment this time around. but in more significant news, we finally got the results back from the hubby's sperm dna test. we had quite a hassle trying to obtain this information; the lab had the results last wednesday, but gave him the runaround with return phone calls. finally this afternoon a urologist called him back to discuss the results.
the doc said that the dna results were fine. 2/3 of his sperm are normal, which apparently is... normal. so -- no big awfulness with the sperm, they just don't quite do what they're meant to. it was nice to have a pro look at the results of his first semen analysis also; this doc said that he wasn't really concerned at all about the motility, and that while the morphology percentage is bad, since the sperm count itself is high it's not as bad as it seems. he mentioned a couple of things that could be going on, things i've read a bit about on the internet -- varicose seals and whatnot, but the hubby is convinced all of this is just a plot to get him to come into this guy's office and spend a ton of money. bottom line is the doctor told him he should be taking male fertility supplements (he has been for a couple of weeks now) and that there's really no reason we shouldn't be able to conceive. he also suggested Interuterine Insemination (IUI), which i thought was interesting because from what i'd read online i didn't think it would be a helpful method for us with a morphology issue. but this guy said yes. i feel that i must use a direct quote from the hubby to describe the IUI process, because i just can't say it any better:
"He said that procedure is only a few hundred bucks and would involve me looking at a nudie mag, them "washing" the sperm, then shoving it up your yeehaw."
clearly we'll need to learn a bit more about it, but it sounds promising (and slightly terrifying).
but... i think we have a gameplan for the next couple of months. we'll keep trying as we have been this cycle and next, now that he's on the fertility supplement and we've read a bit of other pieces of advice: that i should lay down for at least 30 minutes after sex, that we should have sex in the morning whenever possible (a.m. sperm is better than nighttime sperm), that he should be exercising more and eating healthy (we'll see how far we get with that!). by january, after 12 tries on this crazy adventure, we'll consider trying IUI if it seems like a good plan.
i like plans.
oh, and we also read that he should be... ahem, expelling sperm every 48 hours or so consistently throughout the month to keep the sperm as fresh and healthy as possible. apparently if they sit around in there they get funky. i thought this could be the key to all of our problems, and told him that we needed to have sex a lot more often. he said, "no... that hasn't been the problem." i paused, knowing full when when we've been having sex and that there have been some big gaps in between my peak times. he repeated, "that hasn't been the problem," and smiled. so i guess he's been taking care of the sperm. sigh. well, he'll have to keep that up!
can you believe this silliness of all of this??? what a riot.
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