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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best of luck seeking out some help for both you and your DH, OP.

I just wanted to add that skipping drinking during a 2-week IVF cycle is pointless. You are working with sperm produced 90 days ago, not during those 14 days. We have MFI issues, as well. DH saw what I was sacrificing for us to have a baby and didn't balk when I asked him to stop drinking prior to cycles and prepared him packs of multivitamins, vit C, vit D and Co-Q 10. [/quote]

OP again... thanks for letting me know that your husband stopped drinking during your cycles. This is such an isolating process and it's hard to know what's normal. What makes me think my husband has a problem is that he DID change from briefs to boxers, takes all the special supplements daily without reminder, stopped taking baths, etc. And yet he can't stop drinking cold turkey. It's like he really wants to help but he just cannot stop doing this one thing.

Re: my RE, it's so hard for me to know whether my husband is really the problem or if the RE is just saying that because we're unexplained. DH's morph is 3%, motility 40%, but count is 140M. We've been off birth control for three years, not actively trying every month, but trying and failing for enough months that there seems to be a problem. We got pregnant a few months ago but miscarried during the first trimester (no heartbeat at first ultrasound). At first our RE was telling us we were both fine, and then when Clomid failed and I expressed interest in IVF and said that my husband was a bit of a heavy drinker - then the RE suddenly changed his tune and said we wouldn't be able to get pregnant with my husband's numbers without IVF. So I just don't know what to believe. [/quote]

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