Success after IF

Success with IF

We just found out why we aren't getting pregnant. My DH has low motility. We already have a daughter, who is just about to turn two, and we have been trying to conceive number 2 with no luck. I would love to hear people's stories about the steps they took to get pregnant with low motility.

 

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Re: Success with IF

  • I'm so sorry :(

    Most of my friends who have had male factor IF have been successful with IVF with ICSI - where they force the sperm into the eggs.

    There might be some here with luck with IUI - since it gets the sperm where it needs to be - and they also wash the sperm before hand- so only the best swimmers would be picked to inseminate. 

    what is your RE suggesting?

    best of luck to you!

  • I think it depends how low and if the overall counts are normal. If they are, then IUI is a good place to start because as PP said, even if they can wash and put back 3% of 40 million or whatever, that's still a lot of healthy sperm exactly the right place at exactly the right moment.

    I know some people have success with vitamins to get sperm problems sorted, too. We didn't go too far down that route, just put DH on a daily men's multi. If you look up Zita West, you can probably find the combination of vitamins she recommends.

    Don't give up hope... lots of people with MF issues get pregnant without too much trouble, so you're certainly not facing the impossible.

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  • We tried two IUIs but I also have a diagnosis of PCOS.  We were very lucky to be accepted into a study at our RE's office and had luck with our first IVF.

    Good luck!!

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  • My DH has low motility, morph, and count, so we ended up having to do IVF with ICSI.  But, if the problem is just low motility, I would think that you would have a good chance with IUI.  Good luck!!
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  • I'm so sorry you are going through this.  My DH has low count and motility (not severely low though) and we did 3 iui's (I also have PCOS) and none of those worked.  We asked the RE if he thought it was worth it since we did have male factor issues and he said that his counts were low but borderline.... as long as they weren't trerribly low an IUI could still work.  We ended up doing IVF and had half ICSI'ed and left the other half to fertilize on their own.  Good luck with everything.
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  • Thank you for all your responses. I am hoping an IUI will do the trick. We don't know how low the motility is yet, our appt. is on Wednesday. I feel in my heart we will have another baby, it is just going to be a process. I don't understand how this happened, since two and half years ago, we got pregnant with our DD on the very first try. I wonder what his sperm was like then.

     This community makes me feel so much better, thanks!

     

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