TTC" Test your partner's sperm count for cheap, right at home
by Sara McGinnis posted in Pregnancy
In the early weeks and months of trying to conceive, it's hard to know if patience is all you need or if something isn't quite right. For many couples, investigating what's keeping them from getting pregnant is not only a daunting journey, it's an expensive one.
The good news is that technology has begun taking on infertility, and right now couples can do a sperm test at home! One Smartphone and a Yo Sperm Test kit -- no doctor -- is all you need to "check your swimmers."
For $49.95 two kits will arrive in the mail. Then, download the appropriate app, follow the instructions and prepare to not only learn about your sperm's motility -- plus get a view of the little swimmers in action. Here's how it works, and how they look...
I nearly talked my husband into taking the test just to see it work firsthand, but then remembered he's had a vasectomy. Doh! Although those results would be interesting to also see, a note on the Yo Sperm Test site explains the product has not yet been approved for vasectomy testing.
So instead, here are a few highlights from BuzzFeed reporter Anthony Rivas' experience giving it a go...
He was stoked:"I really wanted to see my boys (or girls) on a screen. I wanted to feel closer to my sperm(!). And, I mean, it sounded like a really cool little science project ? like those times in middle school biology class when I'd look through microscopes at amoebas and mitochondria. Only this time, it was my ...
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