First IUI low sperm count… UPDATE

Hi, this morning was our first IUI. I Femara CDs 5-10, and triggered on day 15 on 4/30. At my mid cycle appointment on the 28th they saw two decent sized follicles sized 16mm and 19 mm. My RE said that everything was going as well as he could hope. We went for our IUI this morning and my husband had a lot of trouble giving a sample and wound up losing most of it. They told he would have to try again and if he couldn’t we would have to reschedule. He was able to give a second sample but when we got back to the procedure the doctor (not our typical doctor just the one that was on call) told us that my husbands sperm count was less than one million. He (very curtly and kinda of rudely) told us that we shouldn’t even bother trying and that we need to call our doctor because this was a waste of time. We already paid for the cycle and he said they could credit our account. We decided to do it because we both feel so positive about this and it’s been almost four years of trying. I was really looking for anyone whose had a similar situation or knows someone and has had a positive outcome.

Update 1: we had a follow up appointment with our RE and he said that honestly he still felt really confident with our chances because everything else was exactly what he wanted it to be, he said to just have faith and take it day by day. We tried to stay positive and just breath through the anxious feelings. A few days later they uploaded the results of the sperm analysis to our patient portal and our sperm count was .5 million and I was devastated. I really thought that we were out and was just bracing myself for the negative test.

Update 2 *trigger warning* On 5/12 I had a dream that it was successful and we had FOURTEEN babies because the eggs kept splitting, I had been feeling exhausted the few days prior and nauseous as heck. The next day on 5/13 I decided to test even though I knew in my gut it was going to be negative. I took one and put it on the counter and then started getting ready for the day. When my timer went off I looked down and saw the faintest line and my jaw dropped. I was only 11dpiui and couldn’t believe it, we’ve been testing every day since and yesterday 5/16 was our 14dpiui mark and we got to call the fertility clinic and tell them we’re pregnant. I won’t post the tests here but I am here to say thank you to all of you. Y’all gave me so much encouragement and so much love and I cannot thank you enough. 🥹 We have our beta test tomorrow morning and we’re just so excited.