Did he avoid excessive heat at night (e.g., sleep naked, avoid electric blankets)?
RAH – Don’t forget that for 6-8 hours a day — almost 1/3 of your adult life! — you are in bed! As with all the other recommendations in previous sections, it’s important to make sure your testicles don’t overheat while you’re asleep. My recommendation is to sleep with as little clothing on as you can, and to avoid electric blankets or any other artificial heat source (ordinary blankets are probably okay, and probably helpful if they keep you from curling up in a tight ball to stay warm!) See Sec. 7.14 for a discussion of the efects of heat on testicles and sperm. – RAH We went through 5 years of trying and even though my husbands counts were normal we still went through all the steps to increase our chances – boxers, etc. – but one thing that we were unaware of until we met with the andrology lab was that heated waterbeds are bad for sperm counts. We had never thought about it but it did make sense so we got rid of ours and we did get pregnant about 4-5 months after that (we were doi
