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[quote=Anonymous]I actually don't think the original point was men in the waiting room, but rather men back in the waiting area by the ultrasound room.  At least that is how I interpreted the question.  I also think that some of the people responding are not familiar with the mechanics of morning monitoring at a fertility clinic (or the layout may differ widely at different clinics so what is strange at one clinic is fine at another.)  At GW, the only clinic I am personally familiar with, women line up for blood draws and ultrasounds in the back of the clinic away from the waiting room.  Men, if they come, wait in the waiting room and are then called in when their partners are in the ultrasound room from the waiting room. This seems reasonable and in the six years that I did fertility treatments there, I never saw a man who was a frequent repeat visitor in the back of the clinic.  A man might come back for an ultrasound near the end of the cycle, but never for routine lining checks or simple blood draws.  This system never bothered me.  Occasionally, a man would stand in line with his partner, which I didn't prefer because the changing room is shared and the door to the hallway was often opened when someone was undressed, but the men seemed to hate this too and it was usually a first-timer problem alone.  After that first visit, the men happily waited in the waiting room until called.

I only write this long-winded answer because this thread started to be a fight comparing apples and oranges - different clinics with different setups -  and being commented on by people not familiar with different kinds of fertility appointments.  I also don't think it was originally about waiting rooms at all. This board is usually not negative and there is no reason to let conversations become toxic when the parties are not actually addressing the same issues as each other. [/quote]

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