Hi Kisaboo,

Like Teirae, my DH has older children and a vasectomy and I had none. We talked about children from the start and he was told by a dr that it would be better to do ivf rather than a reversal (it had been about 10 years). When we did the scans at the beginning of ivf it turned out that I had polycystic ovaries, so I could have had trouble conceiving anyway.

So from the time we made our first appointment until we got our BFP was about 6 months. You have to wait ages for an appointment with a FS usually and then you need to do all the BT's & scans etc (which I think happens at the beginning of your mens. cycle). Then you have to wait for another cycle to start the follicle stimulating homones. You usually get monitored really closely which is great. I much prefer this to what I think it would be like to have to conceive naturally and wait every month (this is if you were having trouble ttc).

After our first icsi cycle I had one embryo transferred and there was none to freeze. It didn't take, so we did another cycle using DH's frozen sperm (from last cycle). I had another embryo transferred with one left to freeze. That one didn't take either, so the next month after I ovulated, they transferred the frozen embryo and that resulted in our DS! We moved interstate and had to start with a new clinic. We we got fresh sperm aspirated from DH and we were really lucky to get our BFP the first time, plus 3 frozen babies waiting!

I'm so glad we had an 'ours' baby, and the other children all love him to bits

Good luck