It's interesting this has come up. I was just reading up on low sperm count the other day.
I don't even know why, we're done having kids and are both fixed, but the subject is still interesting having gone through all the infertility stuff.
Anyway, there have been so many recent advances in this area of research that they have revised the definition of "low sperm count". I think it used to be something like 40 million per 'teaspoon', and now it's like 10 million. They are much better at doing procedures involving insemination that the threshold at which they tell a couple "there's just no hope" is a lot lower than it used to be, which gives hope to so many people. They still may need assistance in having a biological child, but it's a possibility still, whereas a year or two ago they'd have been told to give up.
And Staley, at the tail end of the last hyena thread you mentioned Clomid and your mother's fear of you using fertility drugs. DS7 is a "Clomid Challenge" baby, meaning he was conceived while I was taking the drug for the purpose of a test. I'd been on the drug twice before with no result, so really hadn't expected to get pregnant from it. To make matters worse, DH was out of town during my fertile part of the cycle, so zero chance of getting pregnant, right? Somehow, some way, it happened.
And you know that he's the
normal one!