Anonymous wrote:I've done mini IVF. I did it in 2012 as part of a clinical trial studying the efficacy of mini vs. traditional (with New Hope in NYC -- allegedly they pioneered mini IVF). It worked for me and most of the people I was in contact with who were also in the trial. My DS was born in 2013.

I actually went to Dr. Widra thereafter for several rounds of traditional IVF, and while I do like the guy, he is really not the right person for mini IVF. I was on max stims for 3 cycles as part of Shared Risk and once it looked like the protocol wasn't going to be changing much, I switched clinics and found myself back in NYC, this time at Cornell. The cycles I did there (4 of them, I think?) were somewhere in between mini and traditional. I was on drastically reduced stims and the protocol was altogether pretty similar to New Hope's. I would recommend either NYC clinic. It sounds like a bigger pain than it is (cycling out of state). You can do a lot of your monitoring locally, or take the 4am train up, which is what I got used to doing!