Our new plan

We have decided to take it easy for the next couple of months. Since my tube isn’t further hurting my fertility, we will let it be for a little while. Since Hazen just had his SA on July 13, we’ll go ahead and wait a couple more months and just have a follow up done then. Whether we do it in Missoula or here, we’re not sure, but there doesn’t seem to be any reason to get another one done only a month later when it takes up to three months for sperm to replace itself. From what I’ve read his numbers aren’t THAT bad. They’re not ideal, but once we get the other problems fixed, I don’t doubt he can knock me up, at least eventually.

We are going to have him take zinc (helps with motility) and pycnogenol (there have been some very promising studies that this helps morphology). In one study, the pycnogenol increased motility in 99% of the men, by an average of 36%! That would put Hazen at just over 35%, which is well over the 30% threshold. If we can get the semen problem taken care of on our own, that just leaves us with my ovulation and tube, and both can be fixed. It can’t hurt to try.

With our current job situations, it just seems to make more sense to focus more on getting ourselves settled so we can afford another baby, rather than spending all our money on fertility treatments. We need to get ourselves together for the kiddo we already have before spending a fortune making another one. And we’re both okay with continuing to try on our own for a couple of months and seeing where that gets us.