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Low Sperm count and Low Motility - is there any hope of a baby?

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notcopingwelltoday · 22/07/2008 14:59

I had a miscarriage last year, and have been TTC ever since. DH has just got his results, and they are as above. Having done research on it he told me also that it could have been a faulty sperm that caused the MC in the first place. I feel terrible, and don't want him to feel bad. He has to do another test next week.

What i really want to know is;
How do we fix it, can we fix it, and is it at all possible we will ever get pregnant?
I just feel like we have been waiting forever, and now we have to wait even longer.
Just cant cope with all this. And our baby would have been 6 months old today.

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hattscat · 22/07/2008 15:28

Oh poor you, I am sorry you are feeling low. I can't really offer any advice but a similar thing happened to us. First pregnancy ended in miscarriage at 11 weeks, we went off and got tested. Husband's sperm had low everything. GP gloomy about us ever conceiving naturally. Very disheartened but within two months I was pregnant and ds now 2. I hadn't heard about link with faulty sperm and mc. However did fall pregnant last summer (unplanned but were delighted) but this ended in mc too. Now ttc again!

zazen · 22/07/2008 15:19

Yes, you can have a baby, but you might find making that baby a bit pressurised. Hugs to you.

Basically my DH's sperm are few and far between, malformed, immobile, and only live for a half hour or so after leaving the saftey of his testes! We were refused IVF, IUi and ISCI as he is technically infertile (less than 5% viable)

So...... after 3 long years of charting (stressful, very stressful) and the karma sutra of conception (you know upside down etc) - I caved in and bought some ovulation predictor stix, and we used them and timed babymaking like a military operation. Literally down to the minute. We had a missed miscarriage, (which I found very hopeful actually, having never conceived before) and then.......

We conceived our DD 6 months after that.

I had my DH on zinc and vitamin C and made him give up all alcohol and fags and also made him drink a cup of coffee half an hour before we got to it .
I was on double strength folic acid (or frolic acid as I used to think of it) as I was 35 yo, and lots of fish oils and evening primrose oils and a multi mineral and multi vitamin. I gave up alcohol and coffee, was eating mostly raw and fresh foods, and I had taken up yoga to chill out.

And they say romance is dead
Good luck, and hugs!