{ Finding the right Dr. }

Choosing your Dr. for IVF is far from an easy task.  Thankfully I had been researching for a long time in fear of one day having to make this decision.  There are so many Dr's and clinics out there that your eyes begin to cross. This isn't like choosing your dermatologist.  The Dr you choose can change your life...for better or worse.  Being 100% out of pocket and more than plastic surgery this is a hard decision.  We can either choose someone who has the same goals and plans as we do and successfully end up with child OR pay thousands and thousands of dollars and be right where we stared and poor.

Our Dr through Kaiser had his own clinic in which he did IFV, Kaiser does not do IVF at all.  He was an obvious Dr to interview giving he knew everything about our fertility past. It would have been an easy perfect transfer.  We went to the clinic to check them out and see how we felt about the place and I ended up leaving with a sick husband.  Dave gets sick in hospitals sometimes.  There is something about the smell, feel and sterile feel that makes me dizzy and nauseous.  I am not a superstitious person or anything but I do believe that you need to follow your gut feelings and right then Dave's sickness was a sign to me to look elsewhere.

We were referred to two different Dr's in Orange County by a friend and we loved one of them.  The only problem was that they were in Orange County.  Working in the Inland Empire made it a little difficult to have a Dr that was based only only out of OC.  I know the drill, you have to go in at least every other day for blood work while you are on your hormone treatments and I couldn't make the commute out to OC and back for work if I wanted to keep my job!  There goes those Dr's.

I finally stumbled across a Dr that had offices all over the place, including the Inland Empire and every review I had read of his was better than the last.  There was not one negative thing to say about this man or his clinic.  He was well worth a consultation.

His main office was in Irvine but he had a satellite office out by us so I got the best of both worlds.  I would be able to have all of my blood work and pre-surgery appointments in the Inland Empire but would have surgery and the embryo transfer in Irvine which I had no problem with!  I would have to take the day off from work for surgery and the transfer anyway so I didn't mind driving 45 minutes to him then.  Things were looking good so I decided to take the plunge and schedule an appointment for a consultation.