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Sperm Count and Health and 2nd BDs in an hour - OMG.

Ok, so I don't think my DH has a sperm count issue, but he won't go get analyzed again (the last time was a few years ago and he hated the process.) He was fine back then, but he's a smoker and 40 and chances are, not shooting out the healthiest swimmers. I've tried him on vitamins and exercise, and healthy eating to improve chances, but this month we might have unintentionally been doing something really great and I had no idea! I'm 2dpo right now and all last week, we BD'd nearly every day and DH was unusually frisky - at least 3 of those BD times before I ovulated, we managed to get him to ejaculate twice in one hour.

I was curious today if the second time was the same quality or worse, and if doing it twice so quickly actually increased our chances at all, so I googled it. What a Rabbit Hole! Google "second ejaculate sperm count" and you'll get a ton of studies on this.

Guess what??! The second ejaculation in an hour typically has less volume, but actually MORE sperm, with BETTER motility, and BETTER quality - like between 2-4 times more! In fact, fertility doctors are now giving this method to low sperm count men - to try to ejaculate twice back to back to drastically improve their chances to conceive, or using a 2nd specimen collected in a short amount of time to do IVF because of better quality sperm.

I feel like my mind has been blown. That's fantastic! I mean, not all of our partners have sperm count issues, and I'm pretty sure I have dusty old eggs, but when you're TTC for a long time and you can't afford ART or IVF, any little advantage helps! I'm totally going to push for DH to try for that second time every BD during fertile week now. Hopefully it helped us this month.

Does everyone know this but me? Has anyone else heard this from their RE? Anyone get pregnant successfully and attribute it (fully or partially) to multiple ejaculations in a short span of time?

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