2019, Successful
She [Dr. Kat Lin] is very knowledgeable and she was very willing to take time to patiently educate us, which helped us prepare better. We feel she gave more individual attention and tailored the IVF regimen based on the individual patient. We feel like she was actively looking for the root cause of our previous failures and was willing to make continual adjustments to fit our circumstances and my bodies reaction to the medication.
The Patient Portal system that Sound Fertility uses is a bit hard to navigate and not super user friendly (if there is a message reply button, I never found it!), however the staff was always very responsive to our questions we posted on Patient Portal. Sometimes the wait time was around 15 minutes beyond the appointment time which we found reasonable for us. To Dr. Lin and the staff at Sound Fertility, we cannot thank you enough!!
How was your experience with Kat Lin at Reproductive Medicine Associates | Sound Fertility Care?
Due to my age (just over 40) I knew that odds were not in my favor when I started IVF. Me and my husband had tried naturally for 1.5 years and then tried IUI twice but were not successful.
Then we decided to try IVF and chose Pacific Northwest Fertility. After 3 cycles of egg retrieval (over a period of 5 months), we were not able to get any viable embryos that passed the chromosome test. We felt like we were at a dead end and uncertain if it would be worthwhile to try again. We did some more research and found Dr. Kathleen Lin and Sound Fertility. We saw some feedback from some of Dr. Lin's patients that had been unsuccessful with Pacific Northwest Fertility and were able to successfully conceive with treatment from Sound Fertility. That was all we needed to give us hope to continue and try one more time.
We contacted Dr Lin and we were able to start an egg retrieval cycle the next month. She evaluated our situation and recommended that we do a Duo-Stim egg retrieval. After the two Duo-Stim egg retrievals, we were shocked to find out that we had 3 good embryos! One of them is my baby boy that will be born in 2 months!
When we consider how we achieved success with Dr. Lin, we came up with a few reasons: She is very knowledgeable and she was very willing to take time to patiently educate us, which helped us prepare better. We feel she gave more individual attention and tailored the IVF regimen based on the individual patient. We feel like she was actively looking for the root cause of our previous failures and was willing to make continual adjustments to fit our circumstances and my bodies reaction to the medication.
Dr. Lin has a great team that also gave us great individual attention. Jane, Louisa, and Paulina were great! The communication between the team was really great and each team member always seemed aware of the latest status of our IVF treatment. Initially we interacted with Jane and always found her very friendly and attentive. When we first met Paulina, she was new on the team. After just a few months, she completely earned our trust and we found her to be among the most capable medical professionals that we met during our IVF journey.
We really appreciated a few times when we had problems on the weekend, Dr. Lin and Paulina were both willing to talk with us. Paulina even did an unplanned visit to the office on short notice on the weekend to meet us for an urgent matter. We always had lots of questions and never once felt rushed by Dr. Lin, and she has an ability to explain things very clearly. The Patient Portal system that Sound Fertility uses is a bit hard to navigate and not super user friendly (if there is a message reply button, I never found it!), however the staff was always very responsive to our questions we posted on Patient Portal.
Sometimes the wait time was around 15 minutes beyond the appointment time which we found reasonable for us.
To Dr. Lin and the staff at Sound Fertility, we cannot thank you enough!!
What's one piece of advice would you give a prospective patient of Kat Lin at Reproductive Medicine Associates | Sound Fertility Care?
Contact her immediately. I understand she has quite a waiting list.
During treatment, were you treated like a number or a human with Kat Lin at Reproductive Medicine Associates | Sound Fertility Care?
Due to my age (just over 40) I knew that odds were not in my favor when I started IVF. Me and my husband had tried naturally for 1.5 years and then tried IUI twice but were not successful.
Then we decided to try IVF and chose Pacific Northwest Fertility. After 3 cycles of egg retrieval (over a period of 5 months), we were not able to get any viable embryos that passed the chromosome test. We felt like we were at a dead end and uncertain if it would be worthwhile to try again. We did some more research and found Dr. Kathleen Lin and Sound Fertility. We saw some feedback from some of Dr. Lin's patients that had been unsuccessful with Pacific Northwest Fertility and were able to successfully conceive with treatment from Sound Fertility. That was all we needed to give us hope to continue and try one more time.
We contacted Dr Lin and we were able to start an egg retrieval cycle the next month. She evaluated our situation and recommended that we do a Duo-Stim egg retrieval. After the two Duo-Stim egg retrievals, we were shocked to find out that we had 3 good embryos! One of them is my baby boy that will be born in 2 months!
When we consider how we achieved success with Dr. Lin, we came up with a few reasons: She is very knowledgeable and she was very willing to take time to patiently educate us, which helped us prepare better. We feel she gave more individual attention and tailored the IVF regimen based on the individual patient. We feel like she was actively looking for the root cause of our previous failures and was willing to make continual adjustments to fit our circumstances and my bodies reaction to the medication.
Dr. Lin has a great team that also gave us great individual attention. Jane, Louisa, and Paulina were great! The communication between the team was really great and each team member always seemed aware of the latest status of our IVF treatment. Initially we interacted with Jane and always found her very friendly and attentive. When we first met Paulina, she was new on the team. After just a few months, she completely earned our trust and we found her to be among the most capable medical professionals that we met during our IVF journey.
We really appreciated a few times when we had problems on the weekend, Dr. Lin and Paulina were both willing to talk with us. Paulina even did an unplanned visit to the office on short notice on the weekend to meet us for an urgent matter. We always had lots of questions and never once felt rushed by Dr. Lin, and she has an ability to explain things very clearly. The Patient Portal system that Sound Fertility uses is a bit hard to navigate and not super user friendly (if there is a message reply button, I never found it!), however the staff was always very responsive to our questions we posted on Patient Portal.
Sometimes the wait time was around 15 minutes beyond the appointment time which we found reasonable for us.
To Dr. Lin and the staff at Sound Fertility, we cannot thank you enough!!
Describe your experience with Reproductive Medicine Associates | Sound Fertility Care.
When we consider how we achieved success with Dr. Lin, we came up with a few reasons: She is very knowledgeable and she was very willing to take time to patiently educate us, which helped us prepare better. We feel she gave more individual attention and tailored the IVF regimen based on the individual patient. We feel like she was actively looking for the root cause of our previous failures and was willing to make continual adjustments to fit our circumstances and my bodies reaction to the medication.