[*KittyCat*]

...how close you've come to conceiving?

Sometimes i think after BDing i'd love to be able to get a microscope and spy on my egg, just to see how many swimmers, if any have made it there. Any that haven't, how close they got before they gave up!!

Sometimes i wonder where abouts they are on their journey to the egg and i silently cheer them on!

Am i sad and weird for thinking like this?

[SarieP]

No! I wonder that all the time too! I WANT to know each time WHY we didn't get pregnant and what went wrong in there

[jenisuzy]

I would loooooove to know if its close or not at all !!!!!!!!!!! Just looking at a few of my charts I think, WTH, this looks so good. Ya just never know though ....

[christylovesherbaby]

I wondered every cycle. I read somewhere, that only 300 sperm make it to the egg every month, and then my DH's count is so bad, I started wondering if even one made it there ever.

[*KittyCat*]

Originally Posted by christylovesherbaby

I wondered every cycle. I read somewhere, that only 300 sperm make it to the egg every month, and then my DH's count is so bad, I started wondering if even one made it there ever.

I know it's so confusing! When DH did the swim test. About 50,000 made it through. I thought that was pretty good, but the nurse said no, because she said it takes about 20,000 sperm "attacking" the egg the soften the shell via a chemical reaction to allow a single sperm in to fertilise. And give some are going to go up the wrong tube, get lost etc etc etc, it's no where near enough.

Then in the next breath other medical staff tell me the old "it only takes one" Well, if it only takes one, why are other people telling me 50,000 making it through the swim test is bad?! why aren't i preggo yet?!! There's 50,000 of them hanging around somewhere!

[*babylove*]

i have thought that too. I wonder what we are missing.

[Lisap2008]

Yes call me crazy but when I get cramps after BD I often think it may be the sperm swimming up there causing this. last time we did it I cramped for about 24 hours after.


im sorry about what they said 50,000 making it through is not bad at all in my opinion. I think they just dont want you getting your hopes up.

[Red Sox Mommy]

Originally Posted by *KittyCat*

I know it's so confusing! When DH did the swim test. About 50,000 made it through. I thought that was pretty good, but the nurse said no, because she said it takes about 20,000 sperm "attacking" the egg the soften the shell via a chemical reaction to allow a single sperm in to fertilise. And give some are going to go up the wrong tube, get lost etc etc etc, it's no where near enough.

Then in the next breath other medical staff tell me the old "it only takes one" Well, if it only takes one, why are other people telling me 50,000 making it through the swim test is bad?! why aren't i preggo yet?!! There's 50,000 of them hanging around somewhere!

You know, that's really interesting. I didn't know that!

But yeah, I do wonder if they even get UP there, let alone try to fertilize.

OT: what *is* the swim test? How do they do it?

[*KittyCat*]

the swim test is a more in depth SA. They basically put the sperm in a tube and make it swim upwards through a high density liquid. After two hours (i think it's two hours) they count how may have made it through the liquid. This indicates how many sperm have "what it takes" to reach the fallopian tubes.