SO cool! Can see sperm with saliva microscope!

[NeedAGirl!]

I posted about this on another post but wanted to share cuz I thought it was really neat! On a whim, immediately after dtd earlier this month, while still lying in bed, I put a little smear on my saliva microscope and lo and behold, DH and I could both see the spermies swimming all over the place! You can even see their little tails wagging! My son has a crappy microscope that I have tried to look at with slides and it has never worked. The Ovulite worked amazing!

So we checked in a few different situations:
In a fresh sample with no LR, like 90% are swimming around and you can see bazillions of them!

After 10 days of abstinence and LR, I can see tons of sperm but half of the sperm do not move at all, I assume they are dead.

When we just had to do a compressed FR, where DH released on his own 2x and we dtd all within about 10 hours, again about 50% were not moving.

Now please don't assume you can see ANY difference between X and Y sperm - that is impossible - but we could DEF see a difference in motility!!

[rainbowflower]

that's really interesting!

could you give 7 days of daily FR a try too so compressed FR and normal FR can be compared?

[wilma_five]

What do you mean with "LR"?

[wilma_five]

Wait.....it must be licorice root right?

[NeedAGirl!]

Yes. Licorice root. Rainbow - after this crazy month we are SO done with bd for a little while. LOL! IF we need a go next month again, we'll try it!

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks a lot for posting this!!!