Little warning for those who know us and don’t want to know the incredibly personal details of our fertility, this post will be pretty detailed!
On Monday 16th December 2019, we went to the lovely female GP for a summery of all of my clear results (see previous post) and the results of my husband’s tests, which we hadn’t yet received.
For me, she went into a lot of detail. My hormones are good, my uterus lining is good and it appears that I am ovulating as I should be. I do, however, have one ovary (my left one) that is a fair amount bigger than my right ovary. Apparently this is fine and she says it could’ve been due to the side which I was ovulating from that month. But she also said it is probably why I experience severe ovulation pain every month! Before becoming a teacher, I wanted to be a nurse or paramedic so I find all of this stuff fascinating!
Overall, my health and more importantly my reproductive health is very good.
Immediately when you think of male infertility, what comes to my mind in low sperm count. The GP explained that the average male will have about 40-60 million sperm per ml. She explained that this is not the case for Pete, but in fact the test found he had over 300 million per ml! I burst out laughing. I was not expecting that!
However, she did also say that the morphology was very low. This means that although there were a lot of sperm, the number of sperm with good quality shape and size was very low. If there is low morphology, this means that the sperm will struggle to penetrate the egg wall and fertilise it due to its shape or size.
So that makes sense. There is a reason we are struggling to conceive a child. After my previous post explaining how I wished so desperately there was a reason, we now have it.
And I am not sure if it makes me feel any better.
I think it does. But I can’t quite be sure.
But either way, we have something to work with.
After this she explained that he will have to do another test to make sure the results were accurate but she suspects his results next time around could come back all clear. This will make things even more confusing but at least we know they are being thorough.
However, whatever those results, they are referring us to Addenbrookes which is the best fertility clinic around and high rates for IVF success.
So that’s it. We are being referred to a fertility clinic to have more tests and receive fertility treatment for our infertility. It sounds strange to say because I never thought it would be us. But it is. And this is now our life. And our journey to becoming a family.
Journeying to Family 