With his wife Terri in floods of tears beside him, Richard Clothier felt torn. A few moments earlier they had been told the baby they so longed for was not going to happen. And the problem was down to him.
‘My whole world came crashing down,’ says Richard, 39 ‘I wanted to protect Terri but at the same time I felt terribly guilty that I had the problem. I was fit, a non-smoker and didn’t drink to excess. But tests showed my sperm count was low, the motility was poor and the morphology [shape] was poor.’
The scenario is one that is increasingly common. Last month, new research examining data on more than 43,000 men showed sperm counts in the Western world are declining at a terrifying rate.
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