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I felt in good hands with Dr. Jabara from the very beginning. Before our first consult, I had researched his other patient reviews and success rates and felt optimistic. That actual first meeting with him left me feeling hopeful. As we began testing and started treatments, I felt respected and heard as a real person with each interaction. He's a genuinely nice person. That goes a long way when it comes to such a deeply personal and emotional experience as fertility treatment. Throughout my 6+ years as his patient, he was always available and went out of his way to show concern on more than one occasion. I trust his medical expertise and skill, and I value the kindness he always showed me. Through my major surgery with complications, two IVF cycles, and many other intricacies on my journey, Dr. Jabara never let me down.

Trust him. He knows what he is taking about. And he wants you to become a parent as much as you do.

I have put away the specifics in a special place in my brain I don't want to go back to for self-preservation. But what I do recall from the treatment strategies and protocols was that he didnt want to hyperstimulate me. I recall him being very cautious about the protocols because I had a history of blood clot.

It was as efficient as it could be I suppose. Being in the waiting area was always awkward with the other patients, but I'm not sure how the clinic could get around that. The waiting area was full only on one occasion, which is good. I recall the wait time for being called back always felt long, but that could have been the early hour and the anticipation.

The costs were less than I anticipated given the discount. Still tremendously high, but less than expected nevertheless.

He gave the pros and cons with each cycle, his recommendation, the clinic's recommendation, and let me decide. The first transfer was two embryos and subsequent transfers were single embryo.

Dr. Ketefian is a fantastic doctor. She was honest with us through all of the procedures. After our 3 IUIs she told us that it would be in our best interest to move to IVF. She was clear with us throughout the process so we would understand what would be happening. She was always open to answering any questions we had. On our first transfer, she even agreed to call us on day 2 to let us know how the embryos were doing even though they do not normally do that. She called us personally, not just the embryologist or a nurse. Her protocol worked out and we got pregnant with that first transfer despite doing a 3 day transfer. During our second cycle, our retrieval was much more successful and we had more eggs to fertilize. She listened to us and allowed us to transfer 2 embryos again. For this fresh transfer we were blessed with another successful pregnancy. We were so lucky that despite having diminished ovarian reserve, we were able to freeze one embryo. About 3 years later, we went back to her for one last time. She again answered all of our questions and reviewed options for this frozen embryo transfer, since this was our first frozen transfer. Agains she listened to us about what we wanted and what we didn't want. In the end we got pregnant again for the 3rd time. 3 transfers, 2 successful live births and one current pregnancy. I can not say enough about Dr. Ketefian. She is a wonderful fertility doctor.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have about your treatment.

For our IUIs because of the diminished ovarian reserve (DOR), the first cycle was medicated with clomid. The 2nd and 3rd cycle she mimicked IVF with injectable medication which did result in one chemical pregnancy. For the two IVF cycles we used birth control and then injectable medications at the highest level due to the DOR. We also needed to take Vitamin D, baby aspirin, estrogen and progesterone.

It was on par with out fertility locations.

She was always open to what we wanted in addition to giving us her thoughts and opinion. She allowed us to transfer 2 embryos for both fresh cycles.

Dr. Chung treated me exceptionally well, she always explained everything in detail when I didn't understand the procedure or had any sort of question Dr. Chung and her staff was always a call or email away. I never felt as if i was just a "number" or "another" patient I truly felt like Dr. Chung really cares for each and one of her patients, we felt she was helping us reach our #1 goal to have a family..

I would advice a feature patient to walk in with an open mind. Dr. Chung will load you up with information like no one else she will make sure you understand everything as well as have answered all your questions. Follow all advice given by Dr. Chung and nurse.

As a male fertility factor one of our protocols was to try the semen analysis protocol to try and get pregnant naturally since husband suffers of retrograded ejaculations do to cancer and the first time we tried this protocol his sperm reversed,so we were told to try it again which consisted of being abstinence 3-5 days. 1. Begin Sudafed (with pseudo ephedrine) 2 tablets (30mg each) three times a day starting three days prior to semen analysis 2. Take 2 alkaseltzer tablets in the morning.

our estimated care cost is at about 8k.

our Dr. recommended that we get two embryos transfer. why? because or odds would be greater incase one doesn't attach maybe the other one will, and if they both do then we'll be blessed with twins.

He is really compassionate and has a great bedside manner. He reviews your chart thoroughly at each visit. The only problem is that you do not see him every visit. You often see a fellowship student.

Go there if you need basic iui or Ivf. Do not go there if you are interested in pgd/pgs or if you need surgery. The office does not do pgd/pgs routinely so there is some doubt regarding their skills doing the biopsy procedure.

I was put on high dose stims due to DOR. I am not sure if these doses were a little too high or not.

The costs are reasonable but the billing staff is horrific. If you ask for a receipt to submit to your insurance company, you may wait over a month to get it. The billing staff always answers calls when they are collecting your payments but send you to voicemail when you need copies of bills or receipts.

The doctor likes to transfer all available day 3 embryos on the over 40 crowd. It may be a good approach because it gets every embryo a chance at implantation. However, you need to be prepared for potential abnormalities that may cause miscarriage. Worse yet, you may have to make a heart wrenching termination decision.

Dr. Bendikson is professional, very knowledgeable and generous with her time. I appreciate her candor and what we've learned while in her care. Her approach plus the team she works with make visits feel productive and like we are taking the right steps toward our goals.

Ask questions and don't be afraid to get additional clarification if you need it. She is wonderful about explaining and giving info.

The prices seemed right in line with those for clinics that provide similar higher-levels of care. It wasn't "cheap" but not overly expensive.

Dr. Chung is clearly very competent and was compassionate with us. She answered our myriad questions with patience. We attempted two IVF cycles with her and then after a break in treatment we have decided to return to her to try egg donation.

Be prepared with a list of questions and take notes because there is a lot of information.

We tried two IVF cycles with medications but never got viable eggs and had to abort the cycle each time. We currently are pursuing egg donor IVF.

Roughly $11k IVF, roughly $5K meds, though we weren't charged for everything because we did not complete the cycles. Sometimes there were additional fees such as ultrasounds.

We didn't have experience with this

dr was respectful and met with us. She was always being paved to the OR . She’s busy we get it . but once we were getting Ultra sounds for weekly visits just seemed like rushed I guess . she was knowledgeable and gave us her course of treatment.

ask many questions . Get both sides of her opinion .

Px pre NaTals , did a wide blood work up . Genetic testing . Gave my wife hormone tx to be inserted vaginaly for optimal environment for embryo . and ultra sounds weekly to monitor. Growth .

The blood genetics was pricey . Overall the visits were pricey. I guess expected . They were able to provide a discount code for the pre natal vitamins that helped costs .

Wonderful doctor and extremely kind and professional. She explained all the procedures, and was very thorough with her treatment. If I had only seen her each visit I think it would have made a big different. Wish the treatment had worked. Only real problem was seeing so many different doctors due to the amount of visits, and the location was very stressful to get to due to the hours she could see me and traffic.