Feeling defeated

Jennifer

My husband has his reversal done in June 2018 and we have been ttc ever since then. We were told it was a successful VR, but never had a semen analysis completed because we thought it would be crazy expensive. My husband finally had a semen analysis completed on 7/31 and the nurse/doctor just called and said his VR was successful and his sperm count was 8.9 million. The doctor said that it's within normal range and he expects his numbers to increase.However, when I did some research, it said normal sperm count is 40-300 million sperm and anything between 10-20 million is considered low sperm count. Even though doctor says his is normal, I feel we've been struggling for a year because his numbers are too low.

So, what can we do to increase his numbers?