Jen's Story Posted June 3, 2005 - updated Oct 5, 2006 My name is Jen and I am 23 years old. My husband Roberto will be 26 in October. We have been trying to concieve since we got married 2 yrs ago. We thought, no problem, no more condoms, no more birth control. We are so young, this will happen automatically! We started dreaming of baby names, timing my ovualtion, and after making love, wondering when the baby would be born etc. After 6 months with nothing happening, I went to my OBGYN. Everything on my end was great. Blood tests, ovulation, no blocked tubes etc. They suggested we keep trying for the rest of the year and go from there. A year and a half into our journey, my husband finally went for a semen anaylsis. Ill never forget the day they called me at work and said, "We need to talk to you both, when can you come in?" My heart sank. We had a low sperm count with bad morphology. All I could hear is low sperm count. Our next step was to for my husband to see a urologist, we waited 2 hours for the man to just look at his testicles and to instruct him to start taking the sperm improvement drug, Proxeed. "Take this for 4 months, at $130 a month and come see me and we will go from there." 4 months came and went, and the count now was even lower! After seeing me starting to tear up, the doctor proceeded to tell us that in these four months, we hadn't lost anything. We were infertile and we should expect this. I wanted to choke him! We are now waiting to see an actual fertility doctor to see what options are best for us. I never thought that at 23, I would be reading about IVF, sperm injections etc. We are simply heartbroken. We both pray things will turn out better for us and finally see those 2 lines and be pregnant. Update from Dec. 9, 2005 I shared my story just after my husband was diagnosed with a low sperm count and we were waiting to begin IVF. On September 4th, we found out that we were pregnant! Our first cycle was successful and I am in my 18th week of pregnancy. Update from Oct. 5, 2006 On May 19th 2006 at 5:54 pm I gave birth to my lovely son Lorenzo weighing in at 9lbs 2 oz, 21 inches long. He's so handsome I can barely handle it. After going through IVF, every single shot, ultrasound and after 7 months of morning sickness... I am so grateful for his sweet spirit. To all those trying or going through IVF, please keep your head up, its so worth it.