Sydney IVF Vs IVF Australia - your stories?

[DLT]

HI Cassie,

I've been going to IVF Australia for over a year now, for 6 rounds of clomid, and just had my 3rd IUI today. The nurses there are absolutely wonderful. They are so empathetic and you definitely do not feel like a 'number'.

The doctors there are really great too. I would highly recommend them

[Willow]

I went with IVF Australia and I highly recommend them, Dr Gavin Sacks was our FS and I have been to their clinics in the City, Maroubra, Kogarah and Westmead - Staff were always friendly, empathetic, helpful and professional at every clinic. And Dr Sacks just rocks the universe LOL!

Personallly, I think the prices charged by SIVF are outrageous...

[Cuddlepie]

Hi Cassie,

I firstly went to IVF Aust, I don't have issues with the nurses there but I do have a problem with my FS. I don't find him empathy enought and it seems that everytime in our precious 1 hour consultation (which cost me a lot), he is more interested in his Japan skiing experience than my ovary.

So I changed to SIVF. We have done 2 stim cycles now with Dr. Mark Livingstone and he is wonderful. I also think the nurses there are brilliant, very thorough, professional and caring.

I also heard that SIVF has higher standard/or tighter guildlines than most clinics technically as well, for example, their standard transfer is 5-day blastcyst to ensure the quality of the embyros while other clinics can do 2 or 3 day embyros. Their guildline for sperm analysis is also the toughest for motility, morphology and counts. My husband's morphology tested at IVF Aust was 46% normal and it dropped a lot when we re-tested in SIVF.

That's just my personal story/opinion, not neccesarily to say the SIVF is better than IVF Aust (I heard lots of great things about Dr.S from IVF Aust). So I guess it is about what you feel comfortable with, whether you have chemistry with the particular person you are seeing.

Good luck!