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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reviving this thread to post this https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/magazine/fertility-weight-obesity-ivf.html

Shady Grove was always very good about this, and Dr. Widra in particular was very respectful and no-nonsense about it. I was his patient a while ago, but at the time, I thought he took a kind of feminist approach to these things and was very respectful to the female patients who were likely already beating themselves up over their fertility issues.

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I posted above on 3/11/18. I had the opposite experience at Shady Grove. I read this article yesterday and was sick with grief again.  I was turned away from IVF at age 39 when I had a strong AFC count but was just 20 pounds on a tall frame from their cutoff.  I spent 9 months working with a nutritionist before a friend suggested i seek a 2nd opinion and was treated by Dr. Sachs at Columbia.  The big problem for me is that during the interim months my AFC dropped considerably as crossed the milestone from 39 to 40. A better approach would have been to bank younger embryos and work on my weight after the retrievals. 
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