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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]**Disclaimer** We haven't done a transfer yet, so I don't actually have a baby. But our first/only retrieval cycle was successful.

I am 36 and significantly overweight, but have no health issues (blood sugar/A1C, blood pressure, etc. all fine). CCRM and GW weren't willing to go forward with an egg retrieval until my BMI was significantly lower. Columbia Fertility Associates didn't have a problem going forward right away. I don't have DOR, I ovulate, and have regular periods (30-33 days). My husband has slightly low morphology, but not so low that they were willing to say we had male factor. We were diagnosed as unexplained.

My response to the stim meds was textbook. Retrieved 15 eggs, 14 were mature. 8 fertilized, and all 8 made it to blast. 6 out of the 8 were PGS normal. We plan to do a transfer early in the new year after I've lost a bit more weight. (I'm 35 pounds down since April.) We worked with Dr. Sacks, and were really pleased.[/quote]

Overall how did you find going through this process with CFA? We are currently working with Dr. Sacks but doing IUIs, trying to consider what our options would be if we go to IVF.  It has been very challenging for us as we went to CFA thinking we could have monitoring done at their Arlington office and now we are told it is hit or miss when there will be a doctor in the Arlington office.   Was the decision to wait to do the transfer yours, or Dr. Sacks?[/quote]

We had a similar experience - planning to have most of our monitoring done at the Arlington office, only to find out that most of the monitoring would have to be done in DC. For me, that wasn't a huge deal because I come into DC every day for work. It was annoying...but the whole process is annoying....so....whatever. Honestly...I found working with CFA to be FAR better than other reports on DCUM and elsewhere. Their back office/billing staff were helpful and basically worked seamlessly with our insurance (which, thankfully, covered pretty much everything - we're very fortunate). (This is something that CCRM NoVA really screwed up for our initial testing, by the way.) I found Dr. Sacks to be compassionate. Waiting to do the transfer was our decision, not his. He would have done an FET right away (or the next cycle) if we'd have asked, given that my blood work/blood pressure/other health indicators are otherwise good. He just recommended that I remain on a Mediterranean diet throughout the pregnancy - which I'm doing already.[/quote]

OP here. Do you mind letting me know how transfer at CFA goes? 
I thought I could have gone to the Arlington office too. But I went there for my IUI monitorings and they had to call the doctor from DC asking what I was doing there. They almost attempted to draw my blood for some random infectious diseases testing that day. I just worried if they are that chaotic, would they mess up my eggs, sperms, embryos with someone else's. ?

At least their billing has been fine. I was tempted by Shared Risk and the fact they have much closer office. But it took us over a year fighting SG for things that covered by insurance because they submitted the wrong codes. [/quote]

That is my fear. I noticed that none of the charting seems to be electronic at CFA, so I question their ability to communicate seamlessly with their different locations in a time constrained environment.  The other thing I find challenging is that the nurses primarily respond to messages (at least to me so far) at the end of the day between 2-4, so you receive a message from them at 2-something and you have a question back and need to call or e-mail them back, it is very difficult getting them to respond same day without multiple attempts.  Again, I'm in an IUI cycle right now but I would imagine this would be exacerbated in an IVF cycle.  [/quote]

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