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[quote=Anonymous]So I finally got my husband's results back, and the morphology was only 9%.  The nurse told me they like to see 14% or higher but that 9% is not a problem for going forward with IUI or other treatment.  (Other numbers were great - count was excellent and motility was very good.)  This is 'strict' or Kruger morphology, not WHO morphology.

After freaking out over the 9%, I did more researching & asked on another board I'm on, and I concluded that 9% is actually not bad at all and that as a practical matter, hardly any men will get a 14% or higher result because the standard is so strict.  Some REs even consider 5 or 6% to be a good result??  (which begs the question of why 14% or greater is the cutoff for a "normal" result, but that's a whole different issue.)

One other thing is that we do have children already and they were conceived easily, so he's obviously got some good ones in there.  I kind of think if he had a major morphology problem, we would have had some trouble in the past.  Maybe not, but it's a factor in my thinking that his result is ok despite being below the 14% threshhold.

Any thoughts?  Anyone else care to share your DH's result?  Anyone had a result below 14% and been told it was "normal?"

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