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[quote=Anonymous]I went to Cornell about 6 years ago so some of this may be out of date. But I felt that (compared to SG) it was more impersonal and you had to be much more on top of things as a patient. One thing to think about is the logistics of getting your meds.  Will you be able to have meds delivered to you in NYC once you arrive there?  If not, be sure you have a second set of scripts that you can use at a local NYC pharmacy that covers fertility drugs.

Also, here is one protip that worked when I was there. Cornell makes everyone arrive for egg retrieval at the same time early in the morning and so you just sit there in the waiting room (hungry and thirsty) until it is your time for surgery. If you ask to have a Cornell nurse administer your trigger, you will get an early egg retrieval time because they aren't going to want to make a nurse come to your hotel at 1am to administer the trigger.

Also, you won't necessarily have time to discuss how many embryos to transfer with an RE the day of your retrieval unless you request that. We requested it and my husband had to change into scrubs so that he could meet with the RE. But it was a good thing we did -- going into my IVF cycle we had been [planning to transfer 3 embryos (in the past I never even had more than 1 embryo make it to day 3 so the threat of triplets seemed very theoretical when I had my initial consult with Davis). But it turned out that I had at least 3 8-cell embryos available for transfer on day 3. After DH and I talked to the doctor, we decided to just transfer two of them. I ended up having fraternal twins and feel very lucky we didn't stick with our original game plan of transferring 3!!!

On the plus side, Cornell does not make you drink a ton of water before transfer since they don't use an ultrasound.[/quote]

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