Santa Monica Fertility (Pinnacle Network clinic)

I am still mid cycle due to COVID, though I am very confident that no matter what my final outcome, Dr. Jain has given my husband and me the best chance at becoming parents through the IVF route. My younger sister was my egg donor, and I was more concerned about her health through the process of retrieval than I would have been about my own--but I feel she received excellent care and that is a huge relief to us. He adjusted medication doses frequently to avoid over- stimulating her and conducted all of her surveillance ultrasounds personally--we had a statistically excellent result ratio of eggs retrieved to blasts created. My sister had a seamless experience and recovery despite completing treatment at the onset of an unprecedented worldwide health crisis. Dr. Jain is straightforward and realistic and does not over promise-all good things in this field of medicine.

Dr. Jain is an expert and pioneer in egg donor pregnancies and will treat your case individually.

My sister/egg donor was on OCPs for ovulation suppression for several weeks followed by gonal F, then Menopur and Ganirelix with Lupron trigger. She had 12 follicles aspirated, 10 eggs retrieved, 9 mature, 8 fertilized via ICSI and 5 grew to day 5 blast. (graded from very good-->fair). We did not do PGS testing for multiple reasons.

Unlike the prior fertility factory I visited where payment was fee for service, which I found very stressful, you purchase a package when visiting Santa Monica Fertility. I found this much less stressful. Cost of 1 complete cycle using my sister as an egg donor (minus legal fees which were about 1k and medicines which were $3500) was around 24k which includes one frozen embryo transfer. This is on par with my prior clinic's pricing. Of course, having my sister as our egg donor decreased costs significantly because we did not pay agency fees, though the psychological cost of having a family member involved is not insignificant!

We are not at this stage yet though plan to transfer one embryo at a time only despite no PGS testing

Dr. Jain is very friendly, comes off as very intelligent but also caring. He speaks in a way that I can understand, not too technical. Explained every step of each procedure & made sure I was comfortable the whole time.

Don’t be afraid to ask him any question! He will answer anything you ask.

I was given birth control 1st so they could regulate my period. Next I was given Lupron injections to quiet my ovaries. Then I took Estrace to help thicken my lining & last Progesterone suppositories. Unfortunately we had a failed transfer. I’m currently doing a mock cycle & will have a biopsy to test my uterine lining so we can pinpoint exactly when to do my next transfer.

All costs were handled between the clinic & my IPs. I’m not aware of any of the costs.

He didn’t have a strong approach either way. It was my IPs decision & he went with their choice.

Dr. Jain was very prompt with his phone calls. I live out of state so was not able to meet him until the day of transfer, but he always returned my calls and my emails. I never felt rushed or brushed off. He seemed so much more knowledgeable about my specific issues than other doctor's I had worked with. When I wanted more information or had additional questions, he always made time and got back to me quickly with answers.

Ask all the questions you need to. Don't hesitate to ask for further explanations.

I completed a donor egg cycle which consisted on syncing my cycle with my donor's. I purchased 11 mature eggs from my donor, which resulted in 4 day 5 blasts. I transferred 2 which resulted in a singleton.

All initial consultations were free. I was able to speak with Dr. Jain and the nursing staff as well as find out about the availability of my potential donors before I paid anything. Dr. Jain also ordered a saline sonogram and some bloodwork to make sure donor eggs were possible before I paid the clinic. Once I chose a donor, I had to pay immediately in order to secure her for the dates I wanted. This was $30,000 for 8 mature eggs. After that it was the basic costs that go with a fertility treatment - meds, scans, bloodwork.

I saw Dr. Jain shortly after my 35th birthday in 2012 for egg freezing, which at the time was either still experimental or had just recently lost its experimental designation. I saw him for an initial consultation during which he explained the process, and decided to proceed with an egg freezing cycle with him. I chose Dr. Jain because of his experience as something of a pioneer in egg freezing and wanted to make sure that the eggs were vitrified instead of slow frozen (it didn't hurt that his office was less than two miles from my home at the time and all of his degrees were from my alma mater - though I would have traveled further to cycle with him). He retrieved a modest number of mature eggs that are safely on ice. Unfortunately, I can't say whether those "worked" or will "work" as we've not yet tried to do anything with them. More than three years later, I found myself engaged to be married and curious about whether it made sense to look into using my few frozen eggs (concern about higher risk of aneuploidy being even older than I was then). I scheduled a follow up phone call with Dr. Jain, who noted that he didn't see any reason to think we wouldn't be able to get pregnant based on what he saw when he treated me, and suggested that we keep the frozen eggs as a last resort. He was right - we got pregnant with a NIPT normal baby the month after we got married, but unfortunately it didn't stick. Maybe 15 months after that phone call, we'd completed two cycles of IVF/ICSI for PGS elsewhere (in network because I had insurance coverage for those two cycles), and once again wanted to get his thoughts on inseminating the frozen eggs. We scheduled another follow up phone call, during which Dr. Jain took time to update himself on our situation, briefly reviewing records I'd dropped off in advance, and sort of thought out loud/walked through our options and his recommendation. Because of our loss and our ages, we would like to PGS test, but Dr. Jain advised waiting on using the frozen eggs until he might one day be able to offer same day PGS testing (not there yet) to avoid asking too much of the eggs/embryos (thaw, ICSI, culture, biopsy, freeze again, thaw again). He recommended one more IVF cycle for potential banking (and didn't push us at all to do it with him), and maybe going back to trying naturally since we appear to be able to get pregnant. We greatly appreciated his thoughts and honesty. In hindsight, I wish that I had done a little more homework myself on the odds and the numbers of frozen eggs needed on average for a take home baby. Dr. Jain didn't push me to do another cycle (which I appreciated at the time). I wish that I had frozen more eggs when I was younger (though it was really expensive and all out of pocket - and the technology wasn't even that far along when I was significantly younger), but I am grateful for the few frozen eggs that I do have and am confident that Dr. Jain will give me my best chances when it comes time to use them.

Generally speaking you get what you pay for. His services are not cheap, but you will receive excellent service.

For my egg freezing cycle, Dr. Jain used an antagonist protocol, starting me with 225 of FSH (Follistim). I continued on this for six days, then went down to 150 FSH and added 75 Menopur and Ganirellix on day 7, went back up to 225 FSH + 75 Menopur + Ganirellix on night 8, then just 225 FSH the morning of day 9 and triggered with 250 Ovidrel that night. I saw Dr Jain for all but I think one of my monitoring appointments. I think we retrieved 12 eggs, 9 of which were mature.

In 2012 approximately $13,000 for egg freezing cycle plus medication.

Dr. Jain is a kind Doctor. He takes time to listen and answer questions. He knows the numbers and is very well informed on the treatments. His predictions were spot on regarding how many embryos we would end up with. I felt confident receiving treatment from him and personally I think that his skilled hand is the reason we ended up with a successful pregnancy and birth.

Listen to Doctor Jain regarding how many donor eggs to buy to receive the desired number and gender of embryos.

We used donor eggs as I have already gone through menopause. I continued my HRT until the cycle during which I took estrogen and progesterone in different doses. I continued the progesterone through my first trimester.

$150000

I don't remember if multiple embryo transfer was offered as we only wanted a single embryo transfer.

He is kind and compassionate. He is detail oriented and will give you a clear picture of what you're up against. Nothing surprises him. He is completely non-judgemental. He is committed to getting you pregnant and does not encourage transferring multiple embryos. Incredibly intelligent

Really trust his judgment. He knows what he's doing.

He used a medrol pack, progesterone, baby aspirin, estradiol, intralipids, a couple of days of antibiotics pre transfer.

Dr. Jain, is an excellent and ethical doctor. He did so much for us, when our first cycle did not work, he told us for my partner to get control of his diabetes, which we did and came back 5 months later and he did our next cycle pro-bono. He helped us so much and I would refer anyone to him. But now that we have chosen to use a known donor, it makes more sense for us to stay in Vegas for our treatments, it just easier for everyone involved. I love both my Fertility doctors.

Listen to him!!!

WE did progesterone suppositories and estrogen injections and pills. We used donor eggs.

$14,750

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Dr. Jain was extremely warm and inviting, compassionate, and truly helped me understand the process and my choices. I felt totally at ease because of him, and even though I made personal financial sacrifices to freeze my eggs, I felt assured that Dr. Jain would make my investment well worth it. This was in 2016 when egg freezing was less common, so I was the first of my peers taking action to preserve my fertility. Dr. Jain's approach, I believe, enabled me to have a very positive result of 22 eggs harvested in one cycle. The only thing I wish he would have done better is push me to freeze half my eggs to produce embryos.... but at the time I was quite adamant about my choice not to do that. That said, I do wish someone would have counseled me to take this step.

Listen to all of his advice, even if it is difficult or not what you would have hoped for.

It has been quite a while, so I don't remember a lot of details, but I do remember Dr. Jain wanting to be moderately aggressive in stimulating my ovaries to produce as many follicles / mature eggs as possible. He made sure I was monitored frequently with ultrasounds and was in constant communication as each day unfolded. I had no negative symptoms throughout the freezing process at all. Six months later, my ovaries were still quite enlarged, which tells me he "pushed" the envelope pretty far but not too far.

All in, the total cost of egg freezing in 2016 was about $18k.

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