Donor Conception General Chatter #3

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Dear Tarkine,
I just wanted to wish you all the best with the appointments we started our journey in a similar situation to you, my husband is infertile and when we found out it was so devestating my husbands response was well that's it then I guess we're not having a family he went through some fairly major depression and told me to leave him and marry someone else and wouldn't consider any other option for a long while, but he was soooo meant to have children and after a lot of soul searching and some good hard "why us's" we decided to use donor sperm like the ACT we didn't have a problem with waiting lists and started straight away. We are three years on and have our precious angel 17mths and my DH is the most devoted, loving, proud father you could possibly imagine. It was so worth everything we went through. If you need to talk I'm not on line a lot but I am here if you need me along with the other amazing members of this post , Good luck honey

[rather hazy]

Dear Tarkine,
I just wanted to wish you all the best with the appointments we started our journey in a similar situation to you, my husband is infertile and when we found out it was so devestating my husbands response was well that's it then I guess we're not having a family he went through some fairly major depression and told me to leave him and marry someone else and wouldn't consider any other option for a long while, but he was soooo meant to have children and after a lot of soul searching and some good hard "why us's" we decided to use donor sperm like the ACT we didn't have a problem with waiting lists and started straight away. We are three years on and have our precious angel 17mths and my DH is the most devoted, loving, proud father you could possibly imagine. It was so worth everything we went through. If you need to talk I'm not on line a lot but I am here if you need me along with the other amazing members of this post , Good luck honey

Hi Tarkine, my husband and I have just found out that he's infertile too (although we've only had one test) but my husband's reaction was EXACTLY the same! I'm so pleased he changed his attitude, there is hope for my husband to change his mind too. Thank you so much!

[rather hazy]

Hi everyone, I'm new here and thank you to Gargy for the warm welcome.

We just found out on Monday that my husband has no sperm. We are going back to his regular GP to see if there is another kind of test that can be done or something. This is all soooo very foreign to me and I am perhaps very naive too. I have no clue about donor sperm or IVF or any other of the 'things' we might have to do. You all use abbreviations, so I don't really know what it all means yet

But before I hound the GP with 1000 questions, I decided I might get some answers myself, here.

Does anyone know how many tests they do to check for sperm? (this probably sounds stupid...)... but I'm hoping my husband has 'blocked tubes' or something that is preventing his sperm from getting through. My husband has only had to provide a sample so far which proved to be 'Nil' for sperm.

Anyway, I look forward to what is possibly going to be a long association with you all...