DH has antibodies on his sperm, most probably caused by a kick to the groin when he use to play rugby. the antibodies attach themselves to various parts of the sperm and cause them to malfunction and not swim properly etc.. From memory i think it is caused by blood getting into the testicles, but I will have to wait until I get home to verify that!!

the annoying thing is that if he had gone to a Dr and told him what had happened and if the Dr was cluey enough to prescribe a course of antibiotics then we wouldn't have a problem now!

We are lucky that ICSI is available to us now, it's only been around since '96 (I think, or '93) prior to ICSI the only choices that would have been available to us would have been DH being prescribed VERY high doses of steroids (crap results which is why they don't do it!) doner sperm or adoption. Yay for progress!

Jo