My boyfriend smokes marijuana every day. Which I've heard lowers your sperm count. I was wondering if he didn't smoke it for a whole day, would he produce healthy enough sperm to get me pregnant?

Just curious and not to sound like a prude or anything (I had my day of tok'n up in HS) but why in the he** would you want to have a child with a pothead? Been there, done that and now I am seriously paying for it. DD's dad hasn't worked since Oct. 2002 and in the 4 years since I left him he has had about 15 diff jobs.

Please reconsider,

TAZ

smoking that will potentially harm your boyfriend's sperm permanently. it takes 3 months for sperm to "mature" not one day. if you are serious about getting pregnant, I would urge him to stop completely forever!!! if you do end up pregnant, your baby could suffer the consequences from it!

I was just wondering the chance of it happening. We're young and not quite ready for children yet.

you should also know that just yesterday I saw interesting things concerning smoking grass: he will be at 20% more of a risk of developing cancer of the lungs/bronchioles/throat than a regular smoker.

That is a huge %! The reason why, is that the paper used to roll the joint is very high in noxious substances. The smoker also holds the smoke in for a long while...that creates a lot of damage, so I would urge him to stop for general health reasons.

There are also studies on the stupefying effect on regular grass smokers...it can kill off brain cells. If you are thinking of having a child with him in the future, then you want him to be around to help you bring it up, right? Good luck!

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If you are not ready to have children I would not count on his drug use as a form of birth control. Anything can happen! I have known plenty of pot smokers that had no problem what so ever conceiving a child or children.

Amy

We don't rely on it, exactly. But kind of. If it happens, it happens..... I guess. I do try to get him to stop. He has cut back. But when I ask him to stop for good, he just goes into the i never make you happy thing. and the if you loved me you would stop thing doesn't work. I need help.

Being a previous cigarette smoker I know that you can't quite for anyone other than yourself and b/c you want to. Hopefully he will make the right choice especially if you do conceive.

TAZ

That's just it, he doesn't want to quit. He doesn't care about himself, I don't know how he cares about me. Sometimes, I don't think he does. I just wish I could convince him to stop. I don't worry about conceiving. We probably never will anyway.

I hate to say it, but I would reconsider having a baby with someone who, as you say, doesn't care about himself. He needs to care a LOT about himself before bringing a child into this world, as he has to be around to provide for it for many years! Self esteem is a sign of maturity.

Thank you. We really talked about it and he said he would try to quit, and he is.