can you still get pregnant if sperm has low motility?
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If the sperm is otherwise healthy, pregnancy with low sperm motility can occur. Using a reproductive technology such as in vitro fertilization or intrauterine insemination (IUI) can help increase the chance of pregnancy. This is because they bypass the need for the sperm to swim on their own.
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Yes. Any time you have sex, there's a chance that you can get pregnant. If the condom broke, even if you didn't feel anything, sperm may have still entered the vagina.
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As long as the ejaculate wasn't inside your body or on your vagina, you can't get pregnant. Ejaculate on the outside of your body isn't a pregnancy risk. But if your partner ejaculates near your vagina and then fingers you, they may push some of the semen into your vagina. If this happens, pregnancy is possible.
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Yes, you can absolutely, positively get pregnant while having submerged sex. If someone ejaculates inside of you underwater and you're not using contraception, you can get pregnant. The semen doesn't wash away or anything like that, even though some water can enter the vagina during intercourse.
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When the sperm morphology score falls below 4%, your physician will discuss treatment options with you. As discussed above, achieving pregnancy on your own is still possible with low morphology scores, but the chance of conception may be increased by pursuing fertility treatments.
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Yes, you can get pregnant if sperm is near the vagina and it hasn't dried. You may have heard that oxygen kills sperm. This isn't true.
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You can, of course, get pregnant having intercourse in almost any position, but there are certain gravity-defying positions such as sitting, standing, or woman on top that may discourage sperm from traveling upstream.
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Pregnancy is possible any time there's vaginal penetration with a penis — even if the person who has a penis doesn't ejaculate. That's because pre-ejaculate, or pre-cum, also contains sperm.
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No. Some people think that a woman's orgasm helps push the sperm upward. But science shows it doesn't have any effect. You'll get pregnant anytime sperm fertilizes an egg, whether or not there's an orgasm involved.
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No. Sperm morphology alone does not determine whether or not a man can father a child. In fact, a study done by Kovac et. al in 2016 found that 29.2% of men with 0% morphology were able to conceive naturally, compared to 55.6% of men in the control group with normal morphology (≥4%).
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Retrograde ejaculation does not make getting spontaneously pregnant impossible, but the number of available sperm is decreased, so the chances of pregnancy are lower. Sometimes, treatment of retrograde ejaculation is as simple as stopping a certain medication; however, this solution is not always possible.
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The answer is — yes! While it isn't likely, any activity that introduces sperm to the vaginal area makes pregnancy possible without penetration.
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Intrauterine insemination is effective for some cases with sperm quality problems. However, if the total motile count at the time of insemination (after processing) is less than 5 million, chances for pregnancy with IUI are much lower. If the total motile sperm count is below 1 to 5 million, success is unlikely.
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In general, if you have a higher number of normal-shaped sperm, it means you have higher fertility. But there are plenty of exceptions to this. A lot of guys with low sperm counts or abnormal semen are still fertile. And about 15% of infertile men have normal semen and plenty of normal sperm.
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For all practical purposes, you cannot get pregnant without penetration. However, if ejaculate fluid/semen comes in contact with the vagina even without penetration, it is possible that sperm could enter and fertilize an egg.
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A low sperm count, also called oligozoospermia, is where a man has fewer than 15 million sperm per millilitre of semen. Having a low sperm count can make it more difficult to conceive naturally, although successful pregnancies can still occur.
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Azoospermia itself—a lack of sperm in the semen—doesn't have any specific symptoms. Couples trying to conceive will experience infertility if the male partner has a zero sperm count. A couple is said to be dealing with infertility if they don't get pregnant after one year of unprotected intercourse.