So I'm pregnant - The second prequel

So, in an earlier post, I mentioned about having to provide a semen sample before we went to see out fertility specialist. In actual fact, I had to provide three in the end. Before seeing you and your partner, the fertility specialist will want two samples six weeks apart as the quality of your swimmer can very according to a whole bundle of things. Evidently our fertility specialist thought I enjoyed trying to fill a pot (don't try, you'll barely be able cover the bottom) and cutting through rush hour traffic before embarrassing myself, so she got me to see if I could be the exception to prove the "third time lucky" rule.


Then we got the results - they were crap. So along with SWMBO being not very young and having some problems of her own I couldn't produce many sperm, they couldn't swim and a load of them were deformed . Oh joy, I felt so fucking good. I felt even better when I found out that there's not a fat lot that can be medically done for poor sperm, but there are a couple of things that can allegedly help. SWMBO put me on a product called Menevit as well as Coenzyme Q10. Be aware that the development cycle of sperm is 90 days, so if anything is going to have an effect, it won't happen immediately.

So anyway, I have crappy sperm and SWMBO has some fairly serious (but treatable) problems of her own. I won't go into the details as you're probably not here to hear about "women's problems", but if you're so inclined, feel free to google Endemetriosis and "Luteal Phase Defect". After the former of these was sorted out (being the dutiful husband I of course maintained a bedside vigil after SWMBO's surgery and didn't do too much work while she was sleeping) it was back to the fertility specialist to figure out how we were going to start IVF.

Ah yes, IVF - the miracle cure. Or maybe not, but that's enough for one dry post. The final prequel will be coming soon...