Lou, good to hear from you and I hope your break does the trick.

Mel, the emergency ICSI thing is pretty interesting. Basically, if the sperm isn't doing as it should, they try and perform ICSI, however, the success rate is less than planned ICSI (I think) as the eggs have been out of the body for longer by the time they give them a chance to fertilise. Also with regard to EPU, where we are it's done as day surgery in one of the private hospitals. We have PHI and instead of $1400 it will be $250 I think. There are two trips to that hospital for day surgery - one for the EPU and one for the transfer.

Blizzy, welcome. We're currently in our first IVF cycle and about to pay for it on Monday (YUK). But it's not as bad as you probably think once you get started.