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Thanks for all the comments on the pram; I read them to DH. He is so pumped about his plans.

This morning I woke up to this scene: DH sitting on the edge of the couch, staring intently at the pram, and murmuring excitedly, "I'm gonna have to chop it!"

Uh oh. lol
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The hormones are making me feel, er, ready to go at any given moment - and DH is pretty obsessed with my porn star bbs - but we're not allowed to do the deed. So it feels like we're dating again. Plus, just the fact that he and I are sharing this secret is making us all giggly. It is nothing short of wonderful.
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To end on a didactic note: As most of you know, our biggest impediment to conceiving was male factor. DH's sample is shoddy all around, at least on the outside (though we did see improvement for IVF #2, thanks to diet, vitamins, and exercise). Finally, our latest RE ordered a test called the SCSA, which looks at the interior of the sperm to see if the DNA is ok - which is what really matters, after all, for the purpose of baby-making. It's not a foolproof test, though, since medical science knows so frustratingly little about male factor issues, but it does provide a 'tip of the iceberg' indication of what you might be up against. It turned out that DH's boys were fine on the inside, which led us to try IVF #2. Anyway, Murgdan at Conceive This! wrote a very lucid and informative post on this topic, and I wanted to share it for anyone else who is battling male factor.