Low Sperm Count - What's your bedding strategy? Timing & Frequency?

[MrsCompass]

To abstain or not abstain?If so, how long? To bed everyday or every other day? What's your strategy?

 

[star25]

Hi, im waiting to start clomid, my DH possibly has a low Sperm count but we have to do another sample,
my dr told me to abstain for 5 days then BD 5 days in a row so theres lots of spermies waiting (hopefully!) for an egg, However, after my own research on bnb, google etc this doesnt sound like a good plan to me, i think abstaining for 5 days is too long and as the sperm wont be as good quality and motility could be poorer so im going to abstain for 3 days, then BD every other day so days 9, 10, 11 NOTHING then BD every other day from day 12 and hope i ovulate on the clomid!
Good luck!!

 

[midget em]

Hi my hubby has had 2 SA's first one low second one high and so is waiting for a third now to see what that says. We've beeing trying for a year now and always gone with the every 2-3 days but usually just before and around ovulation. Obviously nothing has happened for us that way so this month we stepped up our game. I usually ovulate between cd12 to cd15 so did it every other day upto cd10 then every day cd12-15 and twice on cd13 (we were hoping to also do it twice on cd14 but we didn't get time and we were knackered!!!!)

We decided that even though doing it every day is supposed to reduce the amount of sperm its still better to get as much up there as possible at the right time. We'll prob chill out now and just dtd once a week untill AF is due and see where we go from there.

 

[SweetJennie]

We have tried different methods. I did the every other day thing and then every day during fertile period and didn't get anything out of it but turned off sex!! Lol tried that for about 6 months. My doc said that was very counter productive because it didn't give the sperm time to build up so I decided to try a different strategy. We wouldn't let the swimmers sit more then 5-6 days but it was only that often we bded when I wasn't fertile. When I entered my fertile period I had sex 2 days before O and the day of. Tried that for about 6 months and on my last month we fell pregnant with only a 4 mill sperm count!!!!!! All the other times I didn't really have a plan other then just have sex around O time. So since the miscarriage I've been trying the same approach again. Hope it works for a second time. The docs said we had very little chance naturally but oh well! Apparently it can work for us.

 

[MrsCompass]

Thanks SweetJennie Sorry about your loss ... It is devastating.

 

[readyformore]

My husband had a great SA. Then we bd 6-7 days striaght and his count was like 2 million, lol.

We do no more than every other day for us while fertile and ttc.

I just had IUI yesterday. We had abstained for 6 days and his count was great at 32 million. But, I would have thought it would be higher after 6 days. It makes me wonder what it is if we bd more often.

I would never have sex 4-5 days in a row, unless I ovulated on the first or second day, lol.