For Posterity's Sake

My dear husband has been following a extensive vitamin regimen for many, many months- in the hopes of us being able to bypass the IVF recommendation and conceive naturally. Obviously, we have not succeeded in that department.

I am very curious if the vitamins I found out about on the Internet and through The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis really had any impact on his total count, motility and morphology- or if the countless pills he's popped for months have done nothing to raise the 0% morphology at the very least. We have not had a SA done since he started taking them. Although I am curious, I am not curious enough to shell out hundreds for another Krueger's strict morphology SA just for kicks. That is one thing, however, that I am looking forward to finding out this summer when he provides his contribution to the cause. If these vitamins didn't create M*chael Ph*lps-like sperm, my thought is that nothing will.

For posterity's sake, here are the bottles that have been taking up space on our counter for months:

(Yes, these are all his- mine are elsewhere. And if you were wondering about the different brands... they all run out at different times, so we are always replacing one bottle at a time)

Jake takes these daily:

1. Fertilaid (which is 3 pills)
2. 2000 mg L-arginine (which is 2 pills)
3. 600 IU Vitamin E (...3 pills)
4. 200 mg CoQ10 (...1 pill)
5. 120 mg Pycnogenol (...2 pills)
6. 1000 mg L-carnitine (...2 pills)
7. 2000 mg Vitamin C (...2 pills)
8. 100 mcg Selenium (...1 pill)
9. 2000 mg Fish Oil (...2 pills)
10. 800 IU Vitamin D (...2 pills)
11. 100,000 IU Beta Carotene (...4 pills)
12. 1000 mcg Vitamin B12 (...2 pills)

Yes folks, that is a grand total of 26 pills. (Being a good wife, I have promised him that after our IVF he can take a break, and probably stop) I think it is only fair at this stage in the game, though, that my husband pops pills. After all, he gets to do his part for the IVF in a private room and no one is going to stick needles in his stomach or ass.

He doesn't complain.

He's a smart man.