Davies Fertility & IVF Specialists

She is like a robot. You feel she is reading from a paper. She does her best to end the conversation very soon by giving very short answers to the question. I do not recommend Dr. Davies and Davies fertility center for several reasons (HUGE WASTE OF TIME): 1. From the ultrasound that I did in her clinic, Dr. Davies thought that I had a fibroid and need to remove it by surgery and curettage procedure (D&C). I checked with 3 other doctors; none of them confirmed the fibroid. I even did hysteroscopy with another doctor but they did not find any fibroid too. 2. Their egg retrieval is not personalized. They do egg retrieval at a specific time. To align the patient with their schedule, they put you on contraceptive pills. This messed up my regular cycles. Contraceptives are not good at all for everyone. Why adding extra emotional and physical stress just to align patient with your own calendar and to gather all patients to do egg retrieval? This is not an ice-cream production line! 3. They only perform egg retrieval once every two months and you need to wait as long as two months for it which is a waste of time specially for older women in which time is gold. 4. Dr. Davies is very hands off. No communication with her via email. 5. She does not perform IUIs herself (I checked with the nurse and this is what she said) 6. You can only communicate with the nurse not the doctor through email. Unfortunately the nurse could not answer most of my questions. I heard "that is a good question to ask from Dr. Davies" many times with no clear answer! Does the patient need to set up an appointment with Dr. Davies to ask a question???? 7. Please be prepared to wait around 3 weeks if you want to make an appointment from Dr. Davies if you are an established patient! otherwise you might need to wait more than a month. Imagine you are an established patient and have a time sensitive question that the nurse could not answer. No other means of communication with doctor. 8. The staff are very unprofessional except Georgette and Alyssa. Aanal is the worst. She does not answer her phone most of the time and you need to leave a message. It took 5 days for her to respond to my email and she is not friendly at all. Their unprofessional and unfriendly behavior became more clear to me once I switched to a new clinic. 9. Their portal is not working. It was a headache trying to log in multiple times and finally I had to send the documents to the nurse from email. I had to request several times to have my lab and ultrasound reports. Just avoid them.

Dont waste your time with them. Go somewhere else.

They put me on contraceptive to synchronize my cycle with their egg retrieval schedule but cancelled it later since they have procrastinated the applying the insurance on time and the follow-up. Since they dont personalize the egg retrieval with the patient's cycle, I lost that batch of egg retrieval and I had to wait two more months to an other batch of egg retrieval (they do all their egg retrievals once in two months). They are not organized at all.

Their prices are more expensive than other clinics with less quality. They prescribed a wrong fibroid. The semen analysis test result was a had written sheet with the least information you could imagine that charged above average of the city.

Although I didn't see Dr. Davies at every visit, she was easily accessible and monitored my entire treatment. When we did speak she never rushed me off the phone or out of the office. She explained everything in detail and always asked if I had any questions. She had a plan from the beginning and gave me her suggestions, but ultimately, it was my decision on what I wanted to do. I trusted her with the process and it was successful! Dr. Davies is a very empathetic doctor and very kind. She always made me feel hopeful when I left my appointments.

The only advice I would give is to really make sure you understand the process and listen to everything Dr. Davies is telling you. Write everything down because the process can be overwhelming and always ask questions. No question is a dumb question!

My plan started with surgery. I was referred to a surgeon to remove my uterine fibroids. Once I was healed and got the clear to conceive from my doctor, we started with our first IUI cycle. I had 3 overall IUIs and once the third one failed, Dr. Davies recommended IVF, which we did. Started late in September, had my egg retrieval in October and transferred in November.

I have a primary and secondary insurance that covered most costs.

Dr. Davies only recommended we transfer 1 embryo for the risk was greater if more than one embryo implanted. I'm glad I listened. My first transfer stuck and I got pregnant with one.

We're actually still in the middle of treatment but wanted to add a review because of Dr. Davies' extraordinary care for us. We have 3 pgs euploid embryos after 3 egg retrievals and have started to carefully consider transfer options. Since I am a poor responder we elected to conduct an ERA test. During the ERA test I wound up having a very odd, and nearly unheard of, reaction to the progesterone in oil shots. Understandably this caused us considerable angst since it was yet another setback, and honestly we felt like we were somehow causing the problem with this rare reaction. Dr. Davies came back to us with a fantastic alternative solution, and what's most impressive is that even though this new treatment plan is slightly riskier she was willing to prioritize patient care over her statistics without a second thought. When we thanked her she simply said that she enjoys thinking outside the box as if this were a simple change and not a major treatment plan transition in our benefit! At a time when all I feel is terrible Dr. Davies has been a fantastic support.

Approach this as a team project. Dr. Davies has been so willing to work with us, but we have found that we have productive meetings when we come prepared as well (questions, research, etc). It's all a bit of a whirlwind so the more we asked, the more we felt comfortable with the procedures and next steps.

So far I have had 3 egg retrievals, with a fourth planned. I started with 150 menopur, 400 follistim, and then ganirelix, increased to 450 follistim for the next two cycles. I have DOR and am a poor responder, so we reached 2 mature eggs on cycle 1, 5 mature eggs on cycle 2, and 4 mature eggs on cycle 3. Dr. Davies encourages ICSI which helped as we had 100% fertilization rates, and actually had most embryos make it to blastocyst. Our real attrition came with PGS test results, but we are so thankful that Dr. Davies suggested it as we would not have known how few embryos were really euploid if not. With DOR it's really important to bank embryos now for future children so this gives us a clear picture going forward.

I have an excellent insurance plan so all procedures were covered. We paid out of pocket for genetic testing (approximately $3,000 per cycle, it's much more efficient if you are able to produce a number of embryos at once unlike us), the ERA (approximately $1,000), and a few genetic tests.

Dr. Davies has suggested eSET and we fully agree. It's far safer and with the ability to conduct genetic testing and the improvements in embryo freezing technology it really makes more sense.

While Dr. Davies is not at every check-up, she was easily accessible and monitored every portion of my treatment. She was quick to jump in and extremely involved when my first embryo attached in an unsafe place. She met with me and my husband several times and was very clear about our course of treatment during a very scary time. When we did our second transfer, she modified her strategy and it worked. Dr. Davies was very kind and empathetic during a very strange and scary journey.

My best advice is listen to everything they tell you in the office whether it is for your treatment plan or your appointment times.

When coming for your blood work and ultrasounds, listen to the team on when you should arrive. There can be long waits during certain times of the month. This is communicated to the patient, but it seemed patients chose to ignore these warnings!

We had always planned to go with one embryo. I believe she has protocols in place for when to perform multiple embryo transfer. We were asked our preference.

Dr. Davies showed compassion whenever we met with her. You can tell she was passionate about her job and helping couples achieve pregnancy. She was welcoming, has a soft spoken voice which is comforting to me and explains everything thoroughly and even with illustrations so we could get a visual of what she was explaining to us. Although we haven't had any actual procedures with Dr. Davies because of the COVID-19 situation, I am confident that Dr. Davies will help us achieve our goal of becoming parents.

Don't be nervous. Dr. Davies is very kind and puts any worry at ease. She is compassionate and you can tell by the way she speaks to you.

As I mentioned in my previous comments, due to the COVID-19 situation we haven't moved forward with any procedures. However, based on our discussions and the treatment strategies we discussed monitoring my cycle, getting my body at the right levels and proceeding with IVF. We discussed freezing the embryos prior to transfer rather than a few days later because studies have shown that when the body has rest from retrieval, there was a higher percentage of getting pregnant.

I believe this will vary depending on one's insurance. However, my office visits varied between $85-$300, Ultrasound was $520, varies lab tests ran between $30-$100. This is what Dr. Davies's clinic charged, however not what i paid because my insurance covered some of it.

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Dr. Davies has a very warm personality with the ability to make anyone feel at ease. She is an expert in the field of infertility and is able to explain each situation well to patients. Having her as my doctor was comforting the whole way through!

If there’s a will, there’s a way and Dr. Davies will figure out they way to get the job done!

Initially I went through an egg retrieval with Dr. Davies and at the time we were uncertain if my husband had sperm. He underwent surgery and luckily they found Soren. Dr. Davies team of embryologists were able to create embryos. We tried one transfer with a frozen egg, that’s didn’t result in a pregnancy. So Dr. Davies suggested an ERA (endometrial receptivity analysis), which I did and the results said day 5 was the best for transfer (which is what is typically done). We did another transfer after this and the results were a pregnancy!

It was always busy but the clinic ran it like a well oiled machine!

I had really great insurance with WIN Fertility. The genetic testing was the greatest cost.

I feel that the approach of a single transfer makes a lot of sense - I would be appreciative with one healthy baby at a time!

Dr. Davies was very personable and always accessible. Even when I didn’t see her often, I always felt I was just a call away and could reach out to her anytime. When I went in for both my retrieval and my transfer she was personable and made sure I was comfortable and understood everything that was to happen.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. They are there for you and supportive and if you aren’t sure what the next steps are then just ask.

Insurance doesn’t cover everything. Any additional testing on the embryos was a cost to us, as well as freezing for future

We were very impressed with Dr. Davies at the initial consultation. She seemed caring and knowledgeable and eager to help us. Once we started treatment, though, I/we only saw her a handful of times in the 8-9 months that followed, and that includes the egg retrieval and embryo transfer. Roughly 98% of our interactions were with her staff; any time we WERE scheduled to meet with Dr. Davies, everyone acted as if we were going before the Great Oz herself during our appointment, which was... weird.

We were not allowed to try Clomid (apparently my AMH levels are high and that would have caused the drugs to work too well?) and Dr. Davies would only let us make three IUI attempts due to age. She said from the start that we would be very successful with IVF and she wasn't wrong, but I still don't fully understand how moving to IVF as quickly as we did wasn't overkill.

All ultrasounds and lab work took place before 9:00 a.m. and the daily cattle call led to some pretty lengthy wait times. I spent a lot of time in that waiting room.

We don't have health insurance through our employers and were very limited in our options of providers through our Marketplace plan. Even though Dr. Davies' clinic was in-network, the hospital was not, so we paid out-of-pocket for those.

I definitely didn't want twins, so we decided to transfer one embryo at a time.

Dr. Susan Davies and all her staff treated me with care and respect. They comforted me and were very attentive to my needs. She’s the 1st doctor out of the 3 that took the time to call me and see how I was doing and to give me bad news as well. She was always by my side and trying to make me feel better and relax. I am very thankful and now very hopeful with our baby on the way. I had lost faith and Dr. Davies brought it back.

Just try to relax, follow instructions, take acupuncture, yoga, meditate, anything that can help you relax and leave it in Dr. Davies and God’s hands. It will happen don’t stress out

After our 1st failed IVF with Dr. Davies and our 4th in total. Dr. Davies recommended I tried to relax and do acupuncture. I waited a month and tried to stress less at work, I also did Yoga. I took my prenatal vitamins recommended by Dr. Davies, ate healthier and then followed the injections as instructed.

There was not much wait. They where always fast, easy and with care. I noticed that once I got a positive result my appointments where scheduled at times when other patients where not there. I wonder if this is, so they wont feel bad because one is happy and they are still waiting.

My insurance covered it.

At the end only 2 eggs fertilized they were frozen for a cycle and then she decided to transfer both eggs. Only one took. This was a good decision on her part.

Dr. Davies is a very caring, nice person. My biggest issue is the amount of times I would see her. The only time I would see her is if I scheduled a consultation or the day of my egg retrieval or embryo transfer. I rarely saw her in the office unless it was previously scheduled. In times of heartache and pain, occasionally she would call but for the most part she lets her staff handle.

Ask questions, she is the most patient doctor who will answer any and every question. Demand changes to protocol if it isn't working out.

I do not completely remember, I would need my patient records. Gonal F was used for egg retrievals. Because I responded so well, the doses were low. For embryo transfer I did 6 pills of estrace a day along with 2mL progesterone in oil shots a week leading up to the transfer and continuing after. I also was on baby aspirin and prenatal vitamins. I was diagnosed with a certain mthfr mutation that she stated causes blood clots but refused to do blood thinner because it has not been proven to be successful. In all my results have been 2 chemical pregnancies and 2 miscarriages. My wife also went to her and has had similar protocols and results.

Im not sure as insurance covered most of it. Their office manager is very good about breaking down costs and benefits with you.

Our doctor preferred to only transfer 1 embryo but after some push back she agreed to do 2..

Dr. Davies meant well. She was compassionate and explained the process thoroughly; however, when we were not successful achieve pregnancy transfer after transfer she blamed statistics. After five embryos (3 transfers), you would expect that you would be pregnant if it were statistics. If we were going to go through another round of stimulation with her she wanted to use the same protocol with the addition of testing my lining prior to stimulation as well as genetic testing on the embryos. After each failed transfer she asked us what we were thinking we should do next which seemed strange. She also said she had ideas which were the same each time. I do know two people who were successful with her however, I still wouldn’t recommend her to friends. When you look at her pluisbed statistics online they are not very good compared to other clinics.

Go onto the online data base where you can see percentages of successful transfers, births, etc for each doctor. It was enlightening for us and ultimately why we switch ed doctors. Her numbers were not published when we started seeing her because her clinic was new.

I do not remember. However, I was on birth control and she had sceheduled my medications around her clinics schedule instead of my body’s cycles

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She was very sweet and optimistic, very mellow in explain things made me feel very comfortable and gave me hope. She explain all possible method of treatment. Also made me aware of some of the process i would need to completed before IVF and didn't make me feel as if my dream to have a baby on my own was out of the question.

Go in and meet with her and her team and you will see for yourself how great she and her team are. Very personal experience not a huge commercial clinic at all but very professional and family like atmosphere.

I didn't get to far into my treatment to give protocol as i had other health issues that delayed my surgery to processed with IVF

I never spoke with someone in regards to billing besides the front desk personal for co pays as i used insurance. I was set to go over the cost of IVF but again never got that far due to other health issues.

I wanted more interaction with Dr. Davies herself. I would go weeks without hearing from her and had to demand to see her when my transfer protocol failed to figure out what happened and see if anything could be done in order to get me ready for an actual transfer. Every time I did speak with Dr. Davies I felt better, but definitely thought I would have a lot more interaction with her along the way. She doesn't even have a voicemail box, which is surprising and disappointing.

Be your own advocate and ask the questions you need to know.

STIMS for 10 days: Days 1-5 were 400 Follistism/Gonal-F and 150 Menopur, Day 6 added 250 Ganirelix through Day 10. GEEP/FET: 10 Lupron until Day 1 start, then 5 Lupron at night and 1 estrace tablet; Day 6 was 2 estrace tablets and 5 Lupron; Day 10 started 3 estrace in morning and 3 at night and 1 Medrol per day until Day 15, then added 1 estrogen patch and PIO at night until Day 16 with PIO morning and night and only 4 estrace tablets. In that process now and Transfer is scheduled for Day 20.

I am not an early morning person so I would go in later and never had an issue. They were always so wonderful when I had to bring my son in as well, and really worked with my schedule. They are very easy and fantastic in this department.

They were wonderful and knew exactly how to work with my insurance and the pharmacy. They even learned of a change in my insurance and got me a retroactive payment from my insurance for a large sum of money.

I only have one PGS tested normal embryo so will be transferring that one. Not sure what her approach is beyond that.

Finally , I found my Doctor who saved me! My gyno recomended Dr. Davies. I had a meeting with her. I liked the fact she only has one office so I don't have to run to other offices. Plus she is in private practice. We had a long meeting when I met her . I asked her straight out Will I be able to have a baby. She said yes you will. She looked through my records and she said too many things were done wrong with me. She said first they induced my egg donor too much. I had 32 eggs when she should of had around 14 eggs. That means I was being implanted with too many bad eggs.The eggs should of been genetically tested to get rid of the bad eggs. Then she said my blood wasn't clotting to the embryo. She said all my pregnancies before were chemically pregnancies. She listens and solved my problem BEST PLACE!

Shows empathy and kind

Told me to have my eggs genetic tested to get rid of bad eggs

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Since most of my treatment has been during the pandemic, I mostly meet with Dr. Davies via zoom. I did occasionally have to wait awhile before being able to make an appointment, but I do know the other staff consistently followed up with her if their were questions they couldn’t answer.

Make sure to write down all your questions and have them ready. Sometimes the other staff will be able to give you a quicker response then Dr. Davies.

For IVF: 150 mg Menopur in morning 450 mg Gonal-f in evening Day 4 add Ganirelix 36hrs before retrieval Pregnyl

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Dr. Davies is exactly the type of Dr I could ever ask for while going through fertility treatments. She is sensitive, kind, compassionate, and encouraging. Every time I met with her she sat with me for as long as I needed, was understanding of my confusion and questions, and was just such a sounding board for my husband and me throughout this scary process. Every time I had a failed cycle, she herself called me, as opposed to the nurse. When I had a successful cycle, she met with me as well. And she did every IVF procedure herself, which was very comforting. The only thing I might say that I wish she would've done differently would be providing more blunt, straight-forward, factual information after a failed cycle. For example, after my last failed IVF cycle I met with her and asked questions like, "I know that on average it takes 1.9 IVF transfers to be successful. Is that number because most often it's successful on the first try but sometimes it takes on the 3rd? Or is it most commonly successful on the 2nd try?". Her answer was something like, "Yeah, it's all over the board, you just never know." I also asked her about my progesterone in oil process during that failed round, because it was incredibly painful and I worried that it wasn't dispersing properly in my body. I asked if that could've potentially caused issues and she said no. Now...that may be true but they never tested my progesterone levels. And this time around (my successful cycle) the PIO has been WAY better, so I still wonder about that. All that being said, I absolutely adore this woman and would never want to see a different doctor for my fertility needs.

Prepare to arrive to morning monitoring appointments VERY early. Even though they "make appointments" they see patients on a first come first serve basis.

For the IUIs, I took birth control and Letrizole, with a Lupron trigger. For IVF, I used the antagonist protocol. I stimmed with Menopur, Ganorelix, Lupron, birth control, and on my successful cycle, added in Ecotrin. Then of course Progesterone in Oil and Estrodial before transfer and afterwards. I believe they used this protocol because I have PCOS.

A cattle call with a line around the corner seems like an appropriate way to describe it, unfortunately. This only happened on very busy monitoring days, but women lined up outside before the doors to the building opened, and then lined up in the hallway until clinic doors opened.

My insurance (BCBS HMO) covered this process 100%, aside from PGS testing, which was about $4,000.

For both transfers, she strongly suggested I transfer only one embryo. She said that because I am young and have not done many transfers, I should continue transferring 1 until the time was right to try 2. After the first unsuccessful round, I wanted to transfer 2 and she respected my decision but was very clear about the risks. I ended up changing my mind and transferring only 1.

Susan Davis came highly recommended by my Obgyn. She was very personable. In order to explain the complicated process of IVF, she would often simplify it by drawing diagrams that would explain clearly our options and adjust our expectations. We felt safe and confident in her abilities.

Be honest and transparent with your expectations and concerns with Dr Davis. She will definitely do her best to support you in any way. And know that she has your best interest in mind.

After our first unsuccessful IVF cycle, we were given the option to undergo an ERA procedure in order to determine the best possible implant day. Although this would postpone our next IVF cycle, my husband and I decided to do the procedure to ensure our next cycle would be more successful. The results revealed that indeed a 5day embryo transfer would produce positive results. We also were advised to complete another round of egg retrieval since we only had one embryo left. Unfortunately, our second round of egg retrieval was not as successful as the first, resulting in zero useable embryos. Despite the news, we continued with our second round of implantation and thankfully our embryo was able to implant and we are currently pregnant.

Everything went well. Staff we very professional and kind.

I have very successfull experience with Susan Davies. Everything was explained very clearly to me, I was given multiple treatment options. Eggs retrival and transfer were successful on the first cycle. What more could you wish from your fertility doctor.

Be patient and carefully follow every instruction office gives you.

We started with letrozole (do not remember dosage) and IUI. Doctor recommended 3 cycles only stating that chances are low after 3 failed IUIs. Letrozole dosage was always the same. After 3rd failed IUI, I decided to proceed with IVF but had to wait one month for eggs retrival so did another IUI while waiting. Eggs retrival was success. Doctor is very cautious about OHSS and conservative with medication dosages to be safe. We did ICSI IVF. Out of 13 eggs retrieved, 11 were fertilized and 6 made to 5 day blastocysts. Per doctor’s recommendation, all embryos were frozen, I was told that success rates are higher if we wait at list one cycle after eggs retrival. We also did PGD testing - 5 embryos were normal. One month after retrival, we did single frozen embryo transfer wich resulted in successful pregnancy. I was on progesterone oil shots and estogen pills for first 10 weeks of pregnancy. After that, I was released to my regular Obgyn.

Around $2400 for medicated IUI cycle. Around $17000 for IVF. I paid for two IUIs,then, with the help of office, got secondary insurance which covered most expenses. Had to pay around $2000 for PGD testing and $2000 for freezing eggs and storage. Had to pay about $1000 out of pocket for eggs retrival and another $1000 for eggs transfer.

I was recommended syngle embryo transfer.

Dr. Davies and her team are wonderful, compassionate and caring people who truly love what they do. From our very first consult with Dr. Davies, we had a great experience. She answered all of our questions and was not pushy when it came time for us to make a decision about our next steps. We had been trying to conceive for nearly 2 years and I was recently diagnosed with Endometriosis Stage III. Dr. Davies provided guidance and counseling on our different options. We choose to move straight into IVF and did a frozen embryo transfer. I am currently 9 weeks pregnant!

$4,500 (for genetic testing)