Over a year ago after 4 years of fertility difficulties tests revealed that I had an amh reading of 1.3 and my husband had a sperm morphology score of 2%. I have never experienced such a bleak feeling in my whole life. It felt utterly hopeless as we were told with my amh reading I would be more likely to get pregnant naturally with the release of one egg per cycle however this would be impossible due to my husband’s sperm results. We were told that an amh of 1.3 would mean a low amount of eggs retrieved for ivf and that it might take several cycles to get one viable egg. I was 35 and my husband was 43. I was reassured that my eggs would hopefully be good quality despite being few and far between. My husband and I agreed that we would go down the ivf route but that we would give ourselves three months with the aim of maximising the quality of egg and sperm by lifestyle changes such as diet, high quality supplements under the guidance of a fertility specialist in nutritionist, infared sauna and red light therapy for me not my husband as saunas aren’t ideal for sperm. We also used the fertilily cup. Within a month of these changes I got pregnant naturally. Sadly I had a miscarriage at 10 weeks. However we kept up the changes and decided to postpone ivf and I got pregnant the second cycle after the miscarriage. I have my healthy 12 week old baby snoozing on my lap as I type and I promised myself that I would share this story for anyone in a similar situation that there is hope and it can happen, especially with the support of specific life style changes. There is so much you can do to improve egg and sperm health that is not shared by ivf clinics. I remember trawling mumsnet for hope when I was at my lowest. If anyone reads this and wants to ask questions or know anything more about the lifestyle changes I am happy to answer what I can. I hope this might be of help to someone feeling as desperate as I did. X