Did your clinic folow up after the birth?

[{sarah}]

I was thinking the last few days about taking Juliette out to the clinic to show her off, but just hadn't gotten around to it just yet. Strangely enough I got a phone call from the nurse I mainly dealt with just now. She was calling to see how everything went with the pregnancy & birth etc. I thought it was lovely of her to think of us & ring So I wondered if this is the norm, do they usually call to follow up?

[summerluven]

My FS was also my ob, so we naturally had a fair bit to ddo with the clinic during the pregnancy, and our FS"S secretary was our first visitor after ds' birth. That was lovely.

I don't know whether they would have followed up if things had been different, but I would like to think that they would have, having been such a big part of that chapter in our life.

[diva det]

Yep my clinic did
they actually sent a survey out for me to fill in.
They do it after every postivie pg test.
So i also did one when i m/c.
They then rang after they got the survey to make sure we were doing OK as my twins birth had been so complicated (they nearly didnt survive). My son by that stage had been diagosed with a medical condition that would affect his fertility when he is older. They rang back deliberately a few months after their birth to tell me that they had had patients come through with the same medical condition as my son and had successfully given birth to a healthy baby. They were world leaders in this area. It was the best news i had ever heard.

After i m/c at 12 weeks and they found out through my survey, they rang to make sure that i was OK emotionally and offered their councelling services to me- they were the only medical provider that i dealt with, that asked me if I was OK.

so yes- i think the fact that they have to be so accountable for their statistics that they do regularly follow up to keep them up to date.
Its soo good to be one of their success stories hey!!!
odette

[{sarah}]

We had the survey thing as well Odette.

We went in on Wednesday & our FS was thrilled. He said not many people bring their bubs in, but they do get photos sometimes. I took photos of Juliette with our FS & our head nurse, they asked for copies to put in their photo album

[onthefly]

I think by law they are required to obtain info by the survey thingy. We got one of those to fill out and a congratulatory card.
How nice of your clinic Odette!

[nic]

I called our clinic to tell them about our +ve HPT, and I got another nurse as ours was away. She told me I needed to go in to the clinic (1000k's away) for a BT and she wasn't going to consider it a +ve until I had a BT!
I got a survey from them about a week or 2 before DS was born, but haven't heard anything else from them.
Sarah, I think that's beautiful that you took Juliette in for a visit I'm going to send a photo to the FS who did our EPU and transfer, when I get around to having some cards done up.

Nic

[Willow]

Our clinic called us too Sarah, I think most of them do to follow up for their stats etc?

[nic]

I got another call from our clinic a couple of days ago, asking if we had a boy or girl? their birthdate, name, weight if we had a c/s or not, and who was our OB.

Nic

[butterfly_warrior]

We got a follow up call when I was about 35 weeks pregnant asking how the pregnancy had gone and how did I feel.

We then got another call shortly after Samuel arrived checking on how the birth had gone and how we both were then.

I suspect that when an OB knows it's an IVF pregnancy they pass information back to the FS - our second call checking on Sam came before his due date so they obviously knew somehow that he had arrived early.

BW

[drbeee]

No, we didnt hear anything. I think we had a survey too, but nothing at all otherwise, we might as well have fallen off the planet!

I have been meaning to send my FS a card, but havent gotten around to it yet, and DS is now one! Oops...guess I cant really complain about their lack of follow up can i!

[sazzafrazz]

I read a letter our clinic sent to our GP/OB asking to be kept informed. It is standard practice for stats. They didnt contact me again at all.

When DD was 11months we went back to set up a new treatment plan for TTC#2 and took her with us. We had sent a picture to them at around 5months as they had a large photo wall but when we were there we couldnt see it. (and there were some pictures a lot older there so I dont know what happened to ours?) I had sent a christmas card with a photo of her on it and it was in our file but no mention was made when FS moved it to see a note.

After our chem pg the nurse did phone me a week later to ask how I was and did we want to book on for the next frozen cycle. After our -ve cycle there was no contact.

We went back for a new treatment plan a few months ago and only this week I phoned and advised them we will be ceasing all treatment as we have decided to stop. I would be very surprised if I ever hear from them again.