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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I too wanted to say I'm sorry to read what you're dealing with at GW. Though I didn't do IVF, I was a patient at the GW clinic and had concerns of my own about their monitoring process once pregnant. I became pregnant twice while with them, both losses. The second time they only had me in to check betas every 3-5 days, depending on the day of the week (never weekends) despite the fact my numbers weren't rising as expected. I'm a hyper-anxious person, so being told on a Thursday afternoon that something might be wrong, but that I didn't need to come back in until next Tuesday to check again was just downright awful.
That pregnancy did keep progressing until I was further along than I'd ever been, so I finally got to do my first OB sono. At that time (early 2018, not sure if they have changed things) OB sonos took place during regular morning monitoring, which is again is absolutely a terrible environment for the patient if you get bad news at the sono (patient has no time to process because there's a literal line of women waiting for blood draws that the upset patient now has to walk past). My sono didn't look right, it was probably clearly evident to my RE (who was coincidentally doing monitoring that day) that I was headed for a loss, yet my nurse later emailed with my beta from that day (also clearly not where it should have been) telling me that all was well and come back in a week! That was a Tuesday. I had to push my RE to let me come back in for another beta on Friday morning; my RE called back Friday afternoon to tell me that the beta dropped so I was going to miscarry.

When I switched to Dominion, I was even monitored daily for unmedicated IUI. One morning they told me to come back in 2 days based on my sono, but called me a few hours later to say that my blood work was showing I should come back for monitoring the next day and it was based on that second day that they decided the timing of my trigger shot. Once pregnant, they had me routinely coming in every 2 days regardless of the day of the week for betas, and eventually my OB ultrasounds were like a regular appointment.

I'm glad some other women have had good experiences with the GW clinic, but I found the way they practice to be terrible. I had additional problems with how my RE handled - moreso, failed to handle - my losses beyond the bad monitoring experience and poor communication with two nurses.

Good luck OP. I really hope you get a good outcome.[/quote]

I am so so sorry. How horrid all around. I am a patient of Dr. F and when I got pregnant (later miscarried) my first ultrasound was scheduled in the afternoon, so I do think they have changed that. Sending me for the RPL panel downstairs in the lab where I sat with pregnant ladies doing their glucose test was a terrible postscript, though. [/quote]

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