Dealing with azoospermia?

[babadespls]

Congrats Rainbow, that's great news, I love to see BFP's here!

Tomorrow morning my husband and I have our 1st official appointment at an IVF Clinic with a FS that specialises is MFI. I am so excited / nervous, so happy that we are taking a step forward, Yay!

 

[Rainbow123]

Thank you lovely ladies! It all feels so surreal but totally and utterly magical! I just can't believe how lucky we have been to get pregnant, after the journey we've taken.
I've got to wait until the 12th June to go in and see my FS where she will be doing a scan to check everything is ok. I've not been asked to go in for blood tests, but I think that's just the way they do things here! I think it will be easier to believe that I'm actually pregnant once I've had a scan and been able to see my little poppy seed.
Lots of love to all you lovely ladies, I don't know how I would have got here without you all!
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 

[Rainbow123]

Oh, and Miki - just before I came downstairs and read your post, I'd just been joking to DH about how it could be quintuplets… so you dreamt it and then I joked about it… my FS had better not tell me there are 5 in there! Ut oh! Hahaha! What a funny coincidence!
XXX

 

[bubumaci]

9 more days Rainbow and you get to see your poppyseed I so get you not being able to believe it (heck, I'm in my 19th week, feeling the occasional *taps* from inside, and still can't entirely believe it *lol*). I look forward to hearing all about your scan next week

 

[Rainbow123]

Thanks Bubumaci!

Babadespis - good luck tomorrow! I hope you are able to get lots of information from your doctor. It is so nerve wracking though isn't it? I used to shake with nerves when we were waiting to talk to the urologist about DH. Let us know how you get on. XXX

 

[deafgal01]

congrats rainbow!

 

[MoBaby]

congrats rainbow!!!!!!

 

[Miraclbaby]

congratulation rainbow. i m happy for you.

 

[Olive333]

Congratulations Rainbow - very happy for you.

 

[MBABY2014]

OMG RAINBOW!! How wonderful! I am so very excited for you!! Stay positive and stress free while you wait for your U/S

 

[MBABY2014]

Mo- how you feeling as a new mama??

Rdella- getting close!! How are you?

 

[tulip11]

Congratulations Rainbow I am so happy for you . Have a H&H 9 months.

 

[babadespls]

Thanks Bubumaci!

Babadespis - good luck tomorrow! I hope you are able to get lots of information from your doctor. It is so nerve wracking though isn't it? I used to shake with nerves when we were waiting to talk to the urologist about DH. Let us know how you get on. XXX

It wasn't exactly a life changing, He just told me everything that I already know. (Thanks to Professor Google) but we have a plan of action which is good I suppose, Another SA next week, then if that's negative they will do a sperm extraction the following week, and then my journey will either begin or end abruptly along with my baby hopes, as my husband is dead against DS. I guess my new outlook is hope for the best and expect the worst?

I was very down after the appointment, I never went back to work, went home and drank wine, ate chocolate and cried a lot, but today I have my big girl pants back on.

 

[bubumaci]

Hmmm - I am sorry that you were feeling so down! This journey is so full of ups and downs, it is the craziest roller coaster!! My DH was also totally against DS (in the end it did work with his), but was starting to consider it, because he knew how much I wanted to be a Mother and realised that genetics isn't everything ... I am very much hoping that the extraction is a huge success!! But if not, maybe he will just need some time ...

 

[tulip11]

Hi everyone

My hubby prostate ultrasound is coming so what we were told that they will look for vas deferens tube my question is apart from looking for this tube is there any possibility of obstructions which could be found in this ultrasound?

 

[bubumaci]

Sorry Tulip, I have no idea Fx'd for his ultrasound!

 

[rdleela]

Hi everyone

My hubby prostate ultrasound is coming so what we were told that they will look for vas deferens tube my question is apart from looking for this tube is there any possibility of obstructions which could be found in this ultrasound?

Tulip, my hubby had all the ultrasounds, none of them showing an obstruction, yet he had lots if scarring as an obstruction, so even if the scans come back clean, the only way to really know if he's producing sperm but they aren't coming out is a biopsy or one of those other extraction surgeries. Once my hubby's biopsy came back with healthy sperm, his surgeon THEN opened him up (to do a repair surgery) and found all the scarring that didn't show up on ultrasounds.

Best of luck with the scan...

 

[Rainbow123]

Wow babadespls, that's really quick for the sperm extraction! I'm glad you don't have to wait too long.
We found out about DH's azoo in January 2013, and DH was VERY against DS for a considerable amount of time. I think it was in about the October-ish that I started seeing signs of him coming to terms with the idea, by January 2014 he was very matter-of-fact that if we didn't find sperm we would use DS, then after we had the mTESE (no sperm found) in April 2014, he still needed a couple more weeks to get his head round it. I think a lot of our husbands just need time to come to terms with the reality of the situation. I was just talking to DH about your situation and he said that it's a bit like trying to get through a door that's the size of a pin head, but rather than focusing on the door it should be at what's behind it. He's now realised that the conception part is a really small part of fatherhood, and that it's all the stuff that starts when the baby's born, that is the most important part of being a dad. He said that he does have to keep reminding himself of that, because sometimes it still hurts, but I suppose he is still waiting for that part to come - when our baby is born.
I hope you are able to find some spermies babadespis, but it you don't I'm sure your DH will come round to the idea, he may just need time to accept it. When we found out there were no sperms, after the mTESE, it was a grieving process that both DH and I went through, because it felt like our future had been stolen away from us. Now I don't even think about it, and when I do it just makes me so happy to know that we had this option, and that right now our teeny tiny baby is growing inside of me and that we will both love and cherish it so so much.
Good luck and let us know how it goes. If you ever need anyone to talk to, please feel free to PM me.
Lots of love XXXXXXXX

 

[bubumaci]

Perfectly and beautifully put, Rainbow!

 

[snd80]

Congrats Rainbow!!!!! And wonderfully put about the ds situation.... my hubby was not on board at first, and now that we are here and putting together baby beds and painting, etc. you'd never even know these babies aren't his biologically!!! He is on and that just makes my day!!!

to all!!!!!