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Male Fertility Testing: 6 Things a Semen Analysis Misses When You're Trying to Conceive
Male fertility is still one of the biggest blind spots in fertility care. Male factor infertility contributes to roughly 40–50% of infertility cases, yet I continue to see couples spend months or even years investigating the female partner while the male partner gets a basic semen analysis and little else.
A semen analysis is important, but it is not a comprehensive assessment of male fertility. Sperm quality matters not only for getting pregnant, but for embryo development, staying pregnant, and supporting a healthy pregnancy because sperm contributes 50% of the DNA required to create an…
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