Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Male infertility ended my relationship and led to me losing my house



He now wants more support for men who have

fertility problems.

"I was slowly going off the rails," he says. "I had to take a step back to sort my own head out because I wasn't offered any help."

Matt, 26, says he was told he was infertile after trying for a baby with his ex-partner Bethany.

The charity Fertility Network UK says men's needs are often ignored when a couple is unable to conceive a baby.

Matt, who's from York, had been trying to have a child with Bethany for more than three years but says that asking for help from doctors "didn't seem to get anywhere".

"At first, we were told that there wasn't a problem with me," he says.

"When we did pay for a private IVF consultation and were told there was a problem, it came as a massive shock."

Matt says he had a problem with the structure and movement of his sperm cells.