Our Story

 

 

My husband and I were married in October of 2010, I had stopped taking the pill in September of that year in order to get my body prepped for baby making.  After six months of baby dancing I decided I should probably start taking things a little more seriously as we hadn’t conceived.  I started researching online to learn more about the process and things I could do to increase our chances. I took prenatal’s, started temp tracking, checking cervical mucous and joined a couple of websites to share my excitement and disappointment with others out there. After another six unsuccessful months went by I started getting concerned and talked to my GP, she informed me that we had to have some standard tests completed in order to get referred to a specialist. I, of course, had them done the next day but my dear husband was petrified to give a sperm sample. Needless to say it took him about 5 months to complete this mundane task and his worst fears started coming true, the doctor told him that he had a varicose vein and referred him to a urologist to make sure that it wasn’t harming anything.  The GP told me that his sperm count came back on the low side of normal and that the specialist would give a better explanation and sent our referral letter off to the Infertility Specialist.  Well, my DH went to the urologist who informed him that there was no sense in removing the vein because it wasn’t really going to improve anything. Seven long months later we had our appointment with the IF (Infertility specialist) and he said and I quote, “my heart hurts that the doctor told you that you didn’t need surgery. You’ve just wasted 7 months and the only way I can get you pregnant with this sperm count is IVF.”

WOW!!!

I looked at DH and we both were speechless.  So we made it through the rest of the meeting, the doctor had DH give another sperm sample and gave us both blood work to complete, he also gave me papers to complete an HSG and an SIS which is in preparation for In Vitro. Needless to say his sample came back with low sperm count but good motility and morphology but his hormones were normal. My tests came back all normal and the IF told us at our follow up appointment that after DH's surgery we would have to wait another 6 months before moving forward and to top things off we hadn't even heard from the Urologist for the initial consult. Needless to say I didn't hold it together very well and we have decided to go ahead with IVF with ICSI.