Trying to Conceive

It’s hard to say this (write it) out loud, but here goes: DH and I got some bad news. He went in for a semen analysis, just so we could start ruling things that could be wrong out.

He’s only 26 and pretty healthy so we didn’t see why there would be a problem. It came back low though. He is making an appointment with a urologist ASAP. Hopefully they aren’t too booked in advance because I want to get this sorted out so we can keep trying—–and hopefully succeed!

Anyway, he started looking into it and found out that in lots of cases where young boys have hernia surgeries it can cause low fertility. You guessed it, he had a hernia surgery when he was 10, and another one when he was 20. He’s had not one, but 2. I’m sure the urologist will be able to tell us more, but it looks like that is most likely the problem.

It’s so frustrating. With me being diabetic it’s already supposed to be hard to get pg, and now we have this working against us too. His regular doctor didn’t give us much info, he just said the count was low (how low, we don’t know) and referred him to a urologist.

We actually looked into adoption a little, just to get an idea of the process and the cost – in case it comes to that. We need to get more information from the urologist first of course. We were already only BDing every other day, which I’ve heard is suggested for those with a low sperm count so I’m not sure what other options we will have that will help.

Needless to say, that was not the news we wanted. It was a tiny bit comforting to know there is something wrong though, and we’re not just NOT getting pg—since we’re doing everything right!

So, if you pray, please pray for us!