I wish SG published the pregnancy rate by doctor

[Anonymous]

But I know probably no fertility clinic would do that. Otherwise patients would all make appts with just the one doctor who has the highest preg rates. But it'd be nice to know...

[Anonymous]

You could conduct an informal poll here...

Here's 1 successful pregnancy working with Dr. Chang

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP. Had three IVF's with Dr. Chang and still trying. But in all fairness - I'm 41. How old are you?

[Anonymous]

I was 34 when I had a successful pregnancy through Dr. Chang (after 1 year elsewhere of unsuccessful IUI's & an ectopic pregnancy) , I am trying again now at 37...in January I had 1 failed ivf cycle & am cycling again now...Honestly, though, my impression is that SG's protocols are pretty uniform across docs...

[Anonymous]

I agree. I don't think the doctor matters that much as the protocols are all similar and you never know which doctors will be doing your ER or ET (and most importantly, everything goes to the same lab which is what I think really counts).

[Anonymous]

Plus major decisions (when to trigger, when to change protocols, etc) are always made in tandem (or reviewed by) another RE.
I honestly don't think it matters which doctor you have as your primary.

[Anonymous]

I agree it doesn't matter what dr as far as success rates -but it does matter in terms of bedside manner - it's nice to 'click' w. your dr.

we didn't w. dr. stillman, but did w. other drs we met on monitoring - osborn, widra, etc -

[Anonymous]

PP here w/Dr. Chang--he is definitely NOT warm & fuzzy & I wouldn't exactly say we "clicked," but I still think he's good...but again, I feel like all the docs at SG are technically my doc, although Chang likes to do his own retrievals if he can...I think your relationship w/your nurse is even more important--you have much more contact w/her...

[Anonymous]

Humm . . . I actually had Dr. Chang do one of my IUIs and I didn't think he did it very smoothly. I've been hoping he's not on duty the day I do an ET, because I've read that technique is important to success for that.

[Anonymous]

I agree that it is such a collaborative practice that really you can't point to one doctor as the "reason" you got pg. I saw 3 different doctors during monitoring, had my ER done by a 4th doctor and one of the first 3 doctors did my ET. My "primary" doctor only did my mock ET - not my ER or ET. It takes a village to raise a child and in my case it took a village to MAKE a child!