Trying for Baby 2 and abnormal sperm

[MamaFoord]

Help. Trying for baby 2 at 39...After two m/cs at 12wks since Oct 11, we have found out DH has 94% abnormal sperm. Am terrified that there could be something wrong with him? We had no problem at all with conceiving the first child in 2010. He goes to the doctor to find out why next week... it is going to be a painfully long week. Of course I am obsessively on-line searching for explanations, help in any form...

94% abnormal is actually well within the normal range (I know that sounds crazy but it is!). We have a cut of of 2% normal and he has 6%.
Do you have any other results for him, count etc?
Please don't worry, it is a normal result.

my dh had results of 93% and 95% abnormal and GP said this was within the boundaries of normal. A normal ejaculation has 400million little swimmers. 1% would by 4 million!!
She said anything about 98% could be worrying.

I have a good friend in the US who had the same thing. They had DC1 in 2007 and two years later started trying for DC2. She'd got pregnant easily with DC1 so had no reason to worry, but months passed and nothing happened. To cut a long story short her DH went for sperm analysis and was found to have a low sperm count, low motility in the sperm he did produce and, worst of all, DNA fragmentation. They were advised to try IVF.

Sorry - don't mean to sound full of doom. Hopefully your DH's problem is not so serious as my friend's

So sorry to hear about your m/c s. My dh was diagnosed with a very high percentage of abnormal sperm (I think it was about 98%) despite have 3 other children. I agree with other posters that your dh's reading are within normal limits.

In any case, the good news is that sperm quality can be improved and, as I understand it, abnormally formed sperm rarely account for miscarriages. (They tend not to win the race to the egg!)

We took some simple measures to improve sperm quality including fertility vitamins and I went on to have a successful pregnancy (at the age of 39).

Thank you so much. Still awaiting the doc - 16TH JUNE - but at least you kind ladies have given me a good night's sleep in the meantime. DH and I are laying off the wine and knocking back the vitamins as we speak... here's to the next one!

just heard that all is well, the doctor said he is CERTAIN we will have another baby - the two miscarriages just plain old bad luck... might want to consider picking out the good sperm and trying IUI? or IVF? I would rather the all natural approach by the big old 40 is happening in a couple of months? any advice?

To be honest if you are conceiving easily by yourselves then IUI or IVF won't actually be any help.
The exception would be ICSI then PGD to screen out the chromosomally abnormal embryos but this in itself can cause miscarriage. This is incredibly invasive and not something you should really be looking at yet.
Sadly your doc is probably right in that you have been unlucky to have 2 miscarriages in a short time, but the honest truth is that at 39 your risk of miscarriage is higher than someone younger, and IUI or IVF won't change that.
GOOD LUCK