Is it safe to stop taking Finasteride whilst trying for a baby?

The full answer to your question is much more involved than the short answer. If having another child is important then a full evaluation of both the male and female partner is important here. For my male patients who say to me “we really want a second child”... getting a sperm count at this juncture could make alot of sense. So could repeating it again off finasteride if in fact sperm counts are a bit low from being on finasteride. What you have described is reasonable in some ways but if stopping is not planned with your partner’s cycle and if stopping does not have anyy objective parameters to follow... it may not be the “ideal” plan. The full answer to your question comes after a comprehensive examination of both the male and female.

Many men worry about taking finasteride while they are trying to conceive so what I often advise, is to stop the medication for two weeks, (one week after the period starts and one week prior to it starting). As finasteride is essentially out of the blood in a day, that solves the problem. There have been no reports that I read that men who take finasteride and conceive babies have ever seen a problem with their children.