How do you navigate IVF clinics, costs and treatment recommendations?

[LostLadyBug]

Please help. I’m new and so lost in the world of infertility and IVF. We’ve had some fertility checks at TFP Wessex and been given a costed plan - ICSI and PGT-A testing. We were told to bank a couple of rounds of egg gathering to maximise chances of best eggs (we’re both 40). From what I can tell there is no way to do this other than direct to the clinic with possibly endlessly sprawling fees. How do you navigate the whole process when all the clinics seem to offer different things and their financing partners don’t seem to remotely align with what you’re being recommended as a patient!? I’m so lost.

Hello! I have a similar situation to you in which I need to bank embryos. As you said, I haven’t found a fertility plan which allows it. So we’ve costed up doing it piecemeal through the clinic we’ve chosen (honestly I’ve gone for the one closest to work, the results for my age near me seem pretty similar). We have a limit on what we’ll spend, and probably an emotional limit on what I can cope with. We’ve also decided that if the first round is complete duff we’ll stop there, as that will be proof that there’s obviously no eggs left to get. We don’t have this money lying around, we’ll be paying it off for years.