Hi Melnmar,

we started on our IUI process in november last year with QFG brisbane, so I can only speak from that experience.

All in one day, we had our psyc interview, blood tests, and meeting with the sperm donor coordinator.

Our fertility doc didn't think we needed any tests besides the prerequisite blood tests, based on my age, and the fact that my cycle history has always been very regular with nothing out of the extraordinary. I think you can push it with your doc if you feel uncomfortable and get tests done though. It would just depend on your comfort level and your financial ability.

Psyc test felt like it was just a formality to go through. The psyc focused on the future child (e.g. whether we should tell it that it's donor conceived, ensuring that people around us refers to the donor as "donor" etc etc)...my partner was worried that i would say something hilarious (she meant silly i'm sure of it lol) and get us kicked off the program by the psyc but i dont think they ever kick people off it so don't stress too much about it.

The meeting with the donor coordinator was the most interesting/fun one. She basically went through with us the process...showed us all the profiles...and gave us some tips. E.g. we went in with the expectation that we wanted our donor to be of a certain ethnicity combination, and that we'd buy numerous vials in one go lol....and we left not really care about ethnic combination anymore, or buying numerous vials in a go. Mainly it was cos we didn't have the cash to buy multiple vials ..and even if we did and we got lucky first try, then we would have wasted money on the extra vials. So really that meeting was the best for us in terms of readjusting our priorities to be a little bit more realistic.

If you have any more questions do yell out. I hope it all works out for you two