Hopefully you will have good news soon Pickle
Wish and London happy follicle growth spurting!! Best of luck
Stork yey, the Spanish clinics... I know nothing about Instituto Marquez, only that it seems to be recommended highly by another thread on here. There is also IVF Alicante which also seems to get good feedback.
The IB clinics in Spain are recommended by my previous Bristol clinic for embryo adoption but I never got my follow up appt to discuss further. There was a communication breakdown in the fact that they thought I wanted to do another cycle using OE's asap (why!? without some talk of what went wrong, whats next), and what I was after was an appointment detailing donor embryo options in Spain - they also had a similar arrangement with Embryolab in Greece. It was very much we ll do your scans and arrange it all from here, but failed to give me any information on it. I went directly onto IB website and it does say an almost 100pc guarantee or your money back but by then I was in almost daily chats with Penny's assistant Katie at Serum, and she was just providing me with an answer to every question++ and just had a better feel for it.
Also with my Bristol clinic they only seemed to be recommending EA and not a full donor egg cycle (probably due to the steep mark up costs) In fairness my Consultant rang me several times (always left v/m's) to see how I was after the IVF failure because I think they were desperately hoping it was going to work and didn't know what to say. Then went to see the Counsellor attached to the clinic (altho she is an independent private practitioner too) - she even said it sounds like Serum is a really good choice and had several clients who had gone there and had success and was upset on my behalf that communication had broken down. Mostly they have not responded to an email I sent, explaining I would always be grateful for their help because it meant I had my Mabel which was the happiest time of my life, even though I knew it would come to an end. Explained would be changing clinics because of not offering full DE cycle. The clinic is also impacted on the fact that the NHS clinic (part of the satellite care) is being taken over by a private organisation so just felt like a complete mess if I d gone down the OE route again, and I wanted to start afresh. They ve still yet to respond or to my request for my notes.
As an aside and slightly influencing my decision were contact from 2 ladies thru the DC network, 1 had said be careful with Spain because she had had non identical twins (2 embryo adoptees) and is not convinced her boy and girl are even related (1 case not proven) and also the very minute amount of info you get on the donors. Obviously Greece is anonymous as well, but I get the impression Penny will give you more on the donors in a non identifying way, that gives more than the blood type and colouring basics!! The other lady (DC Network) who d gone for DD treatment in Spain confirmed this is all she got with her treatment and feels a bit sad that she will never be able to provide further info to her son, but ultimately she said it was about what she could offer..love, affection, being a good role model etc. Neither country have a regulator like the HFEA so ultimately who knows!!
Just got used to saying I am going to have a Greek (or Polish) baby and really love Greece as a country. I went in May on a Yoga holiday and loved the place, people, has a great spirit about the place etc. Just overall felt right for me, a new adventure...