As I expected...

We're out of the TTC phase of our life, I think. We had our appointment with the urologist yesterday. The first thing out of his mouth was telling us that we needed to try IUI. All along I've been saying that Derrick has a low sperm count. It turns out that his morphology (sp) count is what it low. This count is for the healthyness of the sperm. At his first semen analysis it was 3% and the second one was 5%. Normal is 20%. According to the urologist, the breaking point is 4%, so because the second analysis is over the 4%, another baby is possible, but not likely. Going along with that my fsh (follicle stimuating hormone) level is 10.1. Normal for my age is 4-7. What that means is that my body is producing a low number of healthy eggs. So, it sort of sounds like we both have the same problem, just a male/female version. Derrick had some blood work done to test his testostrone (sp), I believe. The dr will then either say start the femara or don't. I don't think that we are going to go there. I think that Derrick was just as upset as I was. I'm pretty sure that he almost started crying in the doctor's office. He was making some funny faces. We both called in sick to work and spent the day together. It was nice.

On another note, Derrick had to have an "exam", if you know what I mean. You always hear people complaining about our pelvic exams. I think that the men exams are WAY worse. I had to look away because I kept feeling giggles coming on.