Add it to the list: no more laptop on your knees if you’re trying to have a baby.

A new study, published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility by researchers from Argentina and the U.S., found that semen samples placed a little more than an inch under a Wi-Fi-connected laptop experienced more DNA damage and mobility issues than regular sperm. The samples were taken from 29 healthy men with an average age of 34.

[From Laptop Wi-Fi Might Cause Male Fertility Issues]

I would think the heat alone would be a warning sign, but this is even worse.

It’s back…the moustache you remember me wearing up until 1991! But this time for a good cause; to increase awareness for men’s health care and to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer research.

Please support my growing efforts and the 33,000 men who will die of prostate cancer and the nearly 8,300 men who will be diagnosed with testicular cancer this year.

If you can, take a moment to support the cause at  http://mobro.co/GreatDad.

Okay, I’m not running a marathon or biking to LA, but it still has been a hardship on my family and itchy as hell.

Thank you!

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I’m a little leery about statements like this based on a “majority of donors’” responses from a study involving only 78 teens. I would wish these kids well though. Searching through who you are in adolescence, or even middle age, isn’t easy even if you know all the scraps of data from your past.

(Reuters Life!) – The 2010 drama “The Kids Are All Right” featured two teens raised by a lesbian couple who decide to contact their biological father — an experience that is unlikely to leave scars in real life, two studies said.

The studies, published in Human Reproduction, also showed that the majority of donors who have contact with their offspring report positive experiences.

“There is considerable debate about the potential impact of having been conceived by a known or unknown sperm donor on an offspring’s psychological adjustment, especially during the vulnerable period of adolescence,” said Henny Bos, at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, in an email to Reuters Health.

Bos and colleagues studied 78 teens born to lesbian mothers via artificial insemination and followed throughout their lives as part of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, Mothers in 74 families also completed a child behavior checklist.

[From Meeting sperm donor dad won't hurt children: studies | Reuters]

All it takes, apparently, for this level of fertility, not to mention longevity, is a daily diet of three litres of milk, half a kilo of almonds and half a kilo ghee (clarified butter). Ramajit Raghav and his wife Shakuntala, 59, gave birth to their son Karamjit in November 2010.

The proud father, who was a wrestler in his youth, puts his virility down to his high-calorie diet.

“I had visited a quack in the village and he gave me some tablets but I didn’t take them and threw them away.”

[From Man is 'world's oldest dad at 94' | The Sun |News]

If his wife’s age is also true, it in itself, is a news item.

We had earlier reported the oldest new dad as Raymond Calvert at 79 in Lancashire, England which the Sun reports as the oldest new father in England who fathered a child with a woman 54 years his junior. The Sun Newspaper reports that the previous world record holder was another Indian, Nanu Ram Jogi who fathered his 22nd child at the age of 90 in 2007.

Okay…it was mouse, using stem cell technology, but the headline would be no less striking with the addition of “mouse dads.” This is literally A Brave New World.

Using stem cell technology, Texas researchers have created mice who have two genetic fathers – an advance that could give same-sex couples their own genetic children one day.

Rather than have the usual chromosomal assemblage from a father (XY) and a mother (XX), these mouse babies carry daddy-only chromosomes from two males.

“It has been a weird project, but we wanted to see if it could be done” in mice, says developmental biologist Richard Behringer from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

[From Mouse babies have two dads and no mom - SmartPlanet]

There’s a new kid on the geriatric dads block, and has a new son. He had to beat out a man a year younger and more virile than he was to win the record. At 79, Raymond Calvert, of Winewall, Lancashire England, is the world’s oldest new dad.

I hope I’m still humping like this at 79, though it’s a bit hard to believe that no special drugs were involved, unless you count his 25 year old partner.

Calvert and 25-year-old girlfriend Charlotte became proud parents of tiny Jamie Rai ten weeks ago.

The former shop owner and market trader was 78 when the couple’s 7 pound 1 ounce baby was born.

That easily smashed the record set by previous oldest dad Dennis Ealam, who was 76 when his wife Cora gave birth to daughter Jessie in Lincoln last December.

“I am the most fortunate man in the world,” Calvert said. “The baby was planned and I did not use Viagra or anything like that.”

[From Oldest New Dad, 79, 'Didn't Use Viagra' - FOXNews.com]

The oldest birth mother record-holder, per Wikipedia, is a new mom in India who had twins at age 70, in late 2008.

See pix of the new dad, baby, and his very young wife at the The Sun.

What’s good for the head may be bad for the sperm, says a new study in Fertility and Sterility. Half of the users of Paxil, out of 35 men tested, showed DNA damage to their sperm. DNA damage in turn would result in decreased fertility.The study author, Dr. Peter Schlegel, M.D., thinks that all selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may have this effect since they work in similar ways. Hope-to-be dads should discuss their use of these drugs and the possibility of temporarily stopping their use while trying to get pregnant with their partner.

Yeah, you might freeze your butt off, but the one thing enjoying the cooler weather down there is your sperm. A new study in Germany says that men who spent an hour in heated seats showed an increase in testicle temperature that was significant to harm sperm (from 95˚ to 99.14F). Sperm can be affected at 96.8˚, so heated seats may be the culprit behind your low sperm count, say the study researchers as reported in Men’s Health.

For you men hoping to have a baby at a more advanced age, here are a list of your potential heroes:

David Bowie (at 53), Mick Jagger (at 57), Michael Douglas (at 58), Rod Stewart (at 60), Paul McCartney (at 61), Eric Clapton (at 59), Pierre Trudeau (72), Charlie Chaplin (at 73), Saul Bellow (at 84), Pablo Picasso (at 68), David Letterman (at 56), Larry King (at 65 and 66), Woody Allen (at 51), Warren Beatty (at 62), Dennis Quaid (50) and Jack Nicholson (at 53)

Move over Octomom: We found a dad with 86 kids!
And you think Octomom has her hands full. The aptly named Daad Abdul Rahamn claims to be the patriarch of the largest family in the world. The 63-year-old Dubai resident has 86 children–and two more on the way.

[From The Mommy Files : Move over Octomom: We found a dad with 86 kids!]

Yeah, having 86 kids is a lot, but it’s not like he gave birth to them all at once, or probably actively cares for them all – how could he? That’s so many kids, I doubt if he can remember all their names.

I also don’t know if this statistic really says that much about his fertility…