First hospital appointment

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I've just had my referral to the fertility clinic through (TTC for 10months, but previous pelvic infection from burst appendix could cause me problems so fairly early referral) - does anyone know if my husband needs to come with me or not? Obviously I'll phone the hospital tomorrow and ask, but just wondered if anyone knew? Thank you!

I've got mine coming up too. As far as I understand it's ladies only to start with. Assuming your husband has had an SA done then I guess they should know all they need about him.

I'm going to take mine, as the sperm results are confusing (v high count but crap morphology) and I want to know if they should cancel each other out or not as gp has no clue... And that's the only issue so far, but on month 12 now.

I'd take him if poss

Problem I have is that DH and I work together so both of us taking a morning off at the same time would be very tricky.

My letter, although addressed only to me, requested we both attend the initial appointment. We had both had the initial GP test (day3/21 bloods for me and SA for DH) but the consultant sent us for repeats of everything. He took a full history from both of us at the fist appointment too.

Also it was also good for DH to be able to ask his own questions and take it all in as it was a bit overwhelming on the day. So I would say if you can both attend it would be better.

I have my first one coming up at the end of next week. Only my name was mentioned on the appointment letter, but I will be bringing DP anyway. The way I see it, if they don't need him there and they insist on it just being me, he can wait outside if necessary. I would prefer he was there for moral support anyway. But if I don't bring him they will probably refuse to discuss any issues that may relate to him, since he isn't there to consent to having his medical conditions discussed.

I plan on taking mine though he has had his SA already. I think important for the support and for him to ask questions that your forget to ask. Also although my dh really wants baby too he doesn't get how obsessed i am about it and I want him to be more engaged in the process.

Thanks everyone, I've spoken to the hospital and they've said for the first appointment it's best if he comes too. He's had two SAs done and I've had my bloods and an ultrasound done, I'm hoping they won't want to repeat these but we'll see.