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...However, the numbers given by the RE were specifically based upon OUR situation not the averages. We are in a secondary infertility situation and my numbers are all very good -my age isn't.
H has not had the test you mentioned and if we can't get things done through IUI after a try or two it might be worth pursuing. H is a triathlete but runs the short distance ones, doesn't train at the kind of level you are talking about and doesn't wear the traditional triathlete gear (his shorts are loose running shorts, not bike shorts) and no he doesn't hot tub afterward. So...his activity level is unlikely to be the culprit. The doc seems to believe that the mc's are likely due to egg quality (given that I usually get and stay pregnant easily but that I was younger then - DS14, DD8, DDalmost 2). I do agree that male factor isn't looked into that seriously and I do think that more testing of H might be in order if things don't work out.


cool. as long as you know the score. back to the stock broker analogies: "past performance isn't an indicator of future results" that's another thing that is often overlooked, in both men AND women, but particularly men who have fathered children in the past...fertility is "assumed", which is really silly. "that was then, this is NOW." duh. things change!! so do medications...which was my problem. they just totally ignored the fact that I was taking a very common blood pressure medication, that is *known* to inhibit fertilization, and is being investigated as a future male birth control pill. I had to find this out for myself...when I confronted the doc with the info, she said, ".......(long pause)....oops".

anyway...I digress...
the thing about the scsa test is that its cheap (like a couple-hundred bucks) and easy. way cheaper than the actually $$ cost of an iui...let alone the angst that goes along with it.
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Do you plan to try for another? My heart honestly goes out to people who are having to really go for broke with all of this fertility stuff because it really sux. And it isn't a matter of relax and let it happen or have more sex and it will happen. For a lot of people it takes a great deal of intervention. I have a friend who will need donor sperm and a donor egg to make it work - she has a problem and her H has a DNA problem too.



nope we're done. lucky we got 1. she's 43 now, doesn't want to go through all that again...probably couldn't if we wanted to. She has other medical issues that made the pg very tough on her, even without the age thing.