I 100% understand what is making your decision difficult. Waiting vs. doing it now but then not having his biological baby. I would be baffled to.
You don't have to answer me on this one if it is not my place to know, but it's just that I am very confused as to why the can't use it now? If they are talking about liability things can they not have you sign a waiver? I thought DH's sperm was all good.
They won't do a waiver...i tried asking that question yest, Lol. Ugh.
Ok so here it goes, when dh was younger, his father was NOT careful at all and dh ended up catching hep-C from a razor of his fathers. We knew he had this the whole time and clearly have been unprotected for over 2yrs and I'm still hep-c negative so CLEARLY his swimmers are NOT carrying the virus BUT they feel there's liability issues until they give him a mix of 2 infusions for 6 months to lower his viral load. And then after that 6 months, it takes 6 months to get all the bad stuff from the treatment out of dhs swimmers or else the treatment meds can cause birth defects, which is why we were told to get pregnant FIRST and now we're being told the opposite. Its so damn frustrating!! And he said that there's a VERY SMALL (.02%) chance that the virus could be passed to me via IVF and they're afraid we would blame them...LoL...Thats when I said, Isn't there a waiver we can sign for this?! We would never even think to BLAME them for anything like that! Either way, with or without treatment, the virus will stil be there so thats what really ticks me off...If they can do it after a treatment (not by any means a cure!) then why cant it be before?! U know? ugh. And there's NO policy on this, whatsoever, so they could have said yes if they wanted to. I'm still searching for clinics to reach out to but we'll see. So thats the whole issue. I had to tell u guys because I know it must be driving ppl nuts not knowing why we can't use perfectly good sperm NOW. And the clinic & docs knew about the hep-c before we even had our first consult and not one single person told us that this could be a barrier for us doing IVF. You would think they would have told me immediately that there's a chance they wouldn't be able to perform IVF with his swimmers right now, but instead they let me get all excited and I really and truly thought "this is it!" :-\.
Anyway, so his sperm can be used in the future so as long as we have some eggs frozen, awaiting us, we will have options
. I'm really praying we can make this tubal surgery thing work tho!! Another possibility is to do IVF now with donor but also save half of our eggs and try for another LO when we're ready for another. THIS IS TOO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT!!!! lol. But as u and I both said, whatever choice we make, WILL be the right one!
Edit-There are 2 clinics in London that would take us now so if we can have my eggs sent there, there's a possibility of IVF happening before treatment with his swimmers as well, probably around September/October. Plus they're a little cheaper for just the transfer so that's something we are thinking about as well. I was thinking if we do the tubal surgery, it succeeds and we still aren't pregnant by October/November, we'll travel for it. Again, too many choices to think about!