Sometimes it’s him, not you
Jonathan Waldman, then 29, and his wife, then 26, had been trying to conceive a baby for nine months before they finally got pregnant. Sadly, that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. A few weeks later, the Winnipeg couple decided to visit a fertility clinic, where the doctor ordered a semen analysis for Waldman.
The verdict: Waldman?s sperm had motility issues, which means they weren?t moving or swimming efficiently. (Motility is more than just the speed of the sperm?it has to do with how the sperm move, which can be a straight line, small circles, or in a zigzag.)
?Thankfully, the motility wasn?t disastrously low and there weren?t any issues with morphology?the size and shape of the sperm?or my sperm counts,? says Waldman, whose book, Swimming Aimlessly: One Man?s Journey through Infertility and What We Can All Learn from It, comes out in March. Still, the doctor said there were some things Waldman could try. He started exercising more, ate healthier, and under the advice of his wife?s acupuncturist, he snacked on goji berries, which contain antioxidants used in traditional Chinese medicine to improve fertility. On a follow-up test three months later, his sperm motility had improved.
One in six couples in Canada is infertile?defined as being unable to conceive a baby naturally after a year of trying?and difficulties with the male?s ability to produce healthy sperm, or the sperm?s inability to get where it needs to go, play a role somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of the t...
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