A Taste of IVF Over 40

OK … OK!  I am to ring the Blue Team and let them know it is Day One of my period.  OK, find the little card they gave me.  What time is it?  Argh.  OK – now I was supposed to start taking the pill wasn’t I?  OK well, it’s already part way through the [...]

Meeting with the Melbourne IVF Accounts Department allows you to find out all about how much everything will cost and how to try and get the most back from Medicare.  It is a bit fast-paced but there’s a lot of information.  The are just down the hall from the councellor’s office.  We just chatted with [...]

My husband and I have discussed having another child and how it would affect us.  We’d done this to the point that there was not much to discuss at the counselling session. 
It’s good to know this service is available if there are undiscussed issues, or issues you didn’t even realise you had.
As we are [...]

Not a biggy.  I got a referral from my IVF doctor to go to a Melbourne Pathology branch.  The lady who took my blood was kind and careful. 
They like to test you for all the regular things like rubella, aids, syphilis, hepatitis, etc.

I must say that I almost totally botched my nursing appointment.  In order to see a nurse fairly quickly (I didn’t want to waste any more time!) I had to make an appointment at a satellite clinic.  I didn’t want to waste another month.  The lady on the phone who arranged my appointment was very [...]