Post for my husband 😂

[Montgomery2]

My husband would like to know what the room is like he has to do his part in is like?!

Can anyone share their experience x

[Cinderella5]

My hubby said it was pretty plain. Chair and table with some "magazines". A closed hatch in the wall and they're given the pot and told to put the pot at the hatch and flick the switch when they leave so the lab staff see a light come on at the other side and know to open the hatch and collect the sample. I think there can be a variation in materials like magazine depending on the clinics.xx

[Lilli79]

Hi, my husband said his was just a small room with a chair and a bundle of 'interesting' magazines (lol!!). I don't know if some places have a TV & movies, but my husband has done it in 2 different clinics and they were pretty much the same. I don't think the rooms are particularly exciting to be honest! 😊

[Montgomery2 in reply to Lilli79]

Thanks I know a man who has been and he said there was mags and a tv/dvd player with material on it.

Think he just wants to be prepared so he doesn’t underperform x

[Lilli79 in reply to Montgomery2]

Sorry if this is tmi, but my husband is very particular and doesn't like slutty porn, so he takes his own mags with him!! Still makes me laugh that he told me this 😆

[Montgomery2 in reply to Lilli79]

I just asked my husband whilst he’s at work what does he think about the room and if there’s any worries about being able to perform... his response was “Are you seriously asking me that.... I'm a master masterbator ... no problemo” then he proceeded to ask what the room was like and if he had to touch the magazines 😂😂

[Lilli79 in reply to Montgomery2]

Ha, it does make you wonder doesn't it? The progesterone pessaries I am currently using have completely put me off sex at the moment, and I asked my husband could he survive for a few more weeks. He just looked at me knowingly and said, don't worry I'm doing just fine! Ha ha! And I've never once caught him doing it in 10 yrs of living together. They certainly are masters of it!! 😆😆

[Lilli79 in reply to Lilli79]

But on a more serious note, I was convinced my husband would freeze up on the day. So much pressure for that one moment to get it right. I think most blokes think it's an easy enough thing to do though

[Montgomery2 in reply to Lilli79]

It’s madness, I am going to be on pesseries the whole time- if our treatment works! Hope that they don’t put me off 🤦🏻‍♀️

[TTCs]

Hey my hubby said it was a clinical room with a chair and some magazines. He said he didnt want to touch the magazines lol. There was a lock on the door thankfully and im sure there is for all rooms used for that purpose! He said he could hear nurses talking outside (not about him just their general conversation) as the room was just off the main corridor and the windows were open which wasnt ideal but he basically said the quicker u can get it over with the better. A tip picked up was not to use any saliva to 'help the process along' as saliva can kill sperm. Best of luck! Hope its over and done with quickly. Xx

[Montgomery2 in reply to TTCs]

Thanks for the advice x

[Dunla]

My husband’s experience was the same too. He said he definitely didn’t want to touch the magazines in the box file though! I think he might have used his phone for inspiration if you know what I mean 🤭

[nellynel]

Bloody hell. .that's all they have to do!

[Mrsgled1982]

My hubby said the room was too clinical for him and described it as awful. A chair covered in blue roll (for obvious reasons lol) and a few magazines. Also had the little window for the sample.

1st ivf he was ok and managed the deed. 2nd go he failed to perform. So we had to use a frozen sample produced at home months before.

Hes only managed to do it that once at the clinic. The other times ie SA he has done it at home. We live approx 10 mins by car from the clinic so they were fine with it

[Montgomery2 in reply to Mrsgled1982]

We live about 15 mins away so fingers crossed he does it there first time! As he’s proclaimed he’s an experienced hand he should be ok 😂 x

[E_05]

My husband said the room was pretty plain, had magazines and a DVD playing. He’s managed to do the deed twice, I think for men it’s the thought of it that’s worse! X

[lauren3189]

There was just a small room not the best with a chair and toilet. No magazines or anything! X

[Newyeae]

The rooms are very boring and clinical funnily enough. Mine brought his own "material" on his smartphone along with head phones as a back up as he did not want to touch those magazines or use anything! I did not enquire as to any further details but I am sure if your husband is into that then he will be able to sort it out

[Montgomery2 in reply to Newyeae]

Thanks, I can imagine him just not being able to perform it would be typical 😂 fingers crossed everything will be fine x

[Hidden]

I have no idea what the room is like, but all I know is that first attempt my other half missed the cup! One task, one task and he missed the cup!!

He got a wee bit in, but the sample was not good enough for use - wanted us to do ICSI unless he could knock out another sample.

He managed that but for 30mins as they tested it he realised what it must be like to be me - wondering if my body will do what we need it to with all the injections etc, excepted I’d endured weeks of it.

The ending to the story...we got 7 blasts from this second sample and my 16 eggs. So while they tell men to abstain for a few days, in reality it likely doesn’t make too much difference. He’d knocked two out in the space of an hour!

Hope this brings a smile :0) Rest assured I wasn’t smiling at the time...essentially immediately post EC!! Now think it’s hilarious.

[Montgomery2 in reply to Hidden]

My husband is convinced if he was to do it twice, the second lot would be of more use! He doesn’t ejaculate much if anything so if this happens on the day he will have to do it twice xx

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

🤣 This had me and hubs giggling, albeit at your husbands expense!! But kudos to him!! 😁

[Hidden]

My husband reports that in his ‘experience’ that and I quote ‘chair, bed and tv with porn on’ ☺️

After a short sabbatical from IVF, he reports however that he misses ‘pot’ and his business arrangement and we are ready to move forward with our next cycle!

We scoped a few clinics some rooms are more inviting in some than others, if it helps ask the clinic if you can have a look before the ‘event’. Xxxx

[Montgomery2 in reply to Hidden]

He’s just said to me “do you think if there’s a hatch I could ask the nurse for a hand well only her because your sedated” my response to this is something that can’t be repeated 😂😂 good job we can laugh x

[vansoire]

Haha, LOL 😂 my Hubby took pics in jest and it looks like a small room with a cupboard labelled ‘adult material’ with various magazines including ‘Razzle’, which he found particularly amusing. He said he just got on the Internet on his phone and went straight to redtube 😆

[Montgomery2 in reply to vansoire]

That’s what mine is going to do I think tbh- take some headphones and earplugs just incase he can hear people outside. The pressure to perform though OMG!! Haha x

[Paje]

ok my hubby & I were nhs ivf.. unsure if different (private) clinics have better/different qualities of room! he said there were magazines, but "no way was I touching those!!".

he had to use room on 2 occasions - once for SA test, then on the IVF day. in our hospital the room was located off the main waiting room for the fertility clinic. It had a door lock ( the nurse - male - who showed him in stressed importance of using the lock - apparently it has been known that some people don't!!), a chair, some magazines, but no hatch - upon completion the sample had to be taken to a small cubical office in corridor 2 meters away, within said waiting room & passed back to nurse on duty. thing is, everyone in that clinic knows why they are here - no one enjoys any of these daft procedures, but you grin n bear it & get it over with. andlets face it, we get used to having a scan every second damn day by a differnet human- they can dela with an embarrassing 15 minutes in the whole process I reckon!!

poor sod did say he hated fact he could hear nurses in break room chatting next door - neither one of us thought of headphones - live and learn!! and no harm ensuring for days prior for him to be well hydrated...the body, and all its liquids need water!!

[fay2399]

My clinic has a big tv with porns 🤣

[fay2399]

Also if he feel pressured they can take the sample at home and drive to the clinic but it has to be within an hour

[Zebedee1971]

Oh man, some serious advice here!!! Ask to see the room before you choose your clinic, or at the very least, before you start treatment. They vary wildly. The best was a top London clinic. We had our own room and he got to do it in the room while I was at egg collection. Very pleasant and dignified. The worst was our first clinic. It was in a disabled toilet: plastic chair next to the toilet (which had no lid and smelt of bleach) and loads of used dirty magazines in a grubby file holder. Couldn't even access the WiFi to 'source his own material'! Our middle one was nhs and a standard room. But the quality does vary a lot. You can ask to see the room. I would-- to save any shocks on the day!