First Consultation

We saw a RE for our first consultation today. In the last few days, I've found a high contender to possibly go with that's not this place, so for right now we're making notes and figuring out what fits us best.

We found out that the price for us to do the IVF procedure is where we were thinking it would be.  Without diagnosis and meds (which our insurance will be covering) it'll be about $7,500. We technically have that now, since we cashed out a fund from Bill's old job but we don't want to only use that. We've decided that we'll try next spring, so probably exactly a year or so from now.

An exciting thing we found out today was at this practice, there's a devout Catholic as one of the IVF doctors. He doesn't do certain things (like egg freezing, PGS testing, etc) but he does all the rest. I'm very eager to meet with him and find out the specifics of how he stays in line with Catholicism through his job. Whether we go with him or not, we'd like to do this as much in line with our religious beliefs as possible and find out what we can and can not do in the eyes of the church.

We're trying to figure out if we want to do PGS testing, which is rating the embryos to see which one has the best shot of surviving and thriving. It's an extra almost 3k, but we only want to pay the $7,500 once. It might be worth paying a bit extra if it means 80% success rate instead of only 35%. But it also depends on how many eggs they retrieve. If only 2-3 make it through, it wouldn't be worth it to do PGS.

We're also debating if we want to fertilize only two eggs at a time so we won't have extra embryos left, or fertilize all at once and see what makes it through and freeze whatever we don't use, as it shouldn't be many.

We're going to see if we like the other place any better and see what their prices are and then decide where to go. This consultation gave me a lot of hope. We can handle the price of one cycle, my cysts shouldn't pose too much of an issue and all the labs will be covered.

I'm going to start back up on folic acid and extra vitamin d, as the RE said that should help get my body ready for now.

I'll be calling tomorrow the other option to see how soon I can get an appointment. Once we get our new insurance, I'll be calling the Catholic RE to have a discussion with him. Then we'll prep the best we can on our own with diet changes and vitamins as we save up money and wait for next spring.