Amy Schutt

As mentioned, Dr Amy Schutt was calm, understanding, reassuring and friendly. Our treatment went without any surprises or hitches and we always felt cared for by her and her team. We're very grateful for the experience and moved from a male doctor (and embryos!) especially to her care and clinic and do not regret it.

As with any doctor, have your questions ready ahead of your appointments.

We had a really positive experience with Dr Maya Barksy at Austin Fertility Clinic for our first round of IVF and subsequent embryo transfer. Which was initially successful, but we sadly lost that pregnancy at 10W. Dr Barsky then left Austin to move to MA with her family. We transferred to her male colleague, where we did another round of retrieval and ultimately didn't have such a positive experience. We therefore moved our 4 remaining embryos from AFC to Texas Fertility Center to work with Dr Amy Schutt. She prepared us for another transfer, which was straight forward, simple and hopefully successful - fingers crossed, we are almost 16W pregnant now. The protocol with Dr Schutt was similar to with Dr Barsky (they trained together). Progesterone shots and oestrogen patches to prepare and then 10 weeks of those continuing post transfer. We had weekly checkins, more often if requested and they monitored me extremely carefully through early pregnancy, which was reassuring due to our history.

All through BCBS so unclear. While all her visits and consultations were in network, the location where we did the transfer was out of network, which was the same at our previous clinic and a frustration/shock both times.

Schutt is amazing and highly recommend. I very much love to have all of the science and information and she provided it all. She is very intelligent and very much loves what she does. I loved how knowledgeable she was and that she is constantly learning and staying on top of all the new research. I completely trusted her and her recommendations the whole time and she is huge on patient advocacy. Our protocol worked perfectly (ended up with 4 euploid embryos) and had success on the first try.

Trust Dr Schutt. She is 100% worth the wait and pricing.

While I am 36, I have no infertility diagnosis, our only issue was MFI (my AMH was even good at 4.3), so my protocol was very straight forward and minimal. I started my ER cycle with birth control until I was ready for stims to start (they even helped to manipulate my cycle based on a big work trip). I started with Menopur & Gonal and then as I progressed, Cetrotide was added in. I responded so well that I ended up only taking meds for 8 days (instead of 9) and triggered a day early. I was at a slight risk for OHSS, so they had me do a double trigger (Lupron and HCG). I started with 14 follicles under 9mm and ended up with 32 follicles between 10mm and 23mm. In total, I got 22 eggs, 19 were mature, 17 fertilized with ICSI, and ended up with 6 blasts (one day 5 and six day 6). After PGT-A testing I had 4 euploids, 2 boys and 2 girls. Schutt only offers frozen transfers and also requires a cycle off in between ER and FET as a cooling off period from hormones so that the body can recover. The month of FET, I started with estrogen patches and then 5 days before FET, added in PiO and Crinone suppositories. First try was a success (so far) and am currently graduated from the clinic and am 11 weeks pregnant.

Self pay pricing was $18,500 for one ER cycle and one FET cycle. Everything was included (procedures, monitoring, blood work, office visits, testing, etc) except embryo biopsy, PGT-A testing, medicine, and anesthesia. PGT-A Testing (6 embryos) - $1200 from Igenomix Biopsy - $800 Anesthesia- $750 ER meds (IVF Pharmacy) $3,000 FET meds $300-500. Genetic Carrier Test (Invitae) $250 (for both people together)

Schutt only offers single embryo transfers to the best of my knowledge.

Dr. Schutt was condescending and acted like I should be grateful just to be in her office instead of acknowledging all of the frustrations I had gone through (secondary infertility as a result of a missed complication from my first pregnancy). She was very cold during the consult and would randomly ask to see photos of my daughter or husband during inappropriate parts of the consult such as discussing my previous surgical history which felt forced and uncomfortable (and not medically relevant). Her documentation/note of my appointment also included many factual inaccuracies (she misdated when I underwent specific medical workup, when my daughter was conceived, and when I delivered my daughter). She also scheduled a procedure for me and then called two weeks later to cancel without providing a further or alternative treatment option. Overall it was a horrible experience that I still shudder thinking about, I am forever grateful that I did not continue my fertility treatment under her care.

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$200 for initial consult after insurance coverage

She is a good listener and has good bedside manner. She will answer every question and tell you the truth. I feel like she’s very knowledgeable and will listen if you have and idea or a suggestion. On the down side, it’s hard to sometimes get her to do the procedures or even make an appointment.

She’s very sweet. Ask everything you need, she will answer and listen to you.

She used 100mg of clomid for the IUIs and the timed intercourse. Then she used 450 of gonal f, 2 vials of menopur, cetrotide and the trigger. She also used HGH to prime. Her rationale (even when I asked her about mini ivf) was that with DOR women, this was the protocol research confirmed worked best. She also mentioned that if it didn’t work out, she would be happy to try something different.

Each iui was $600 out of pocket, and the clomid as well. Then my husband changed jobs and had a better insurance that covered 10k in fertility meds and 10k in procedures. I still had to pay over 5k out of pocket for medications and I’m still waiting for the procedure bills. The insurance won’t cover a 2nd ivf cycle, and out of pocket costs are around 13k

I only have 1 embryo, but she did say a multiple pregnancy was high risk, and that she couldn’t put mother and babies at risk “on purpose”. That her goal was 1 healthy baby.

She was very thorough and very compassionate towards me! She is an IVF Mom herself and understands the struggle that we go through. Throughout the treatment, she teaches residents or fellows, sometimes both. It made me feel good to have more than one person monitoring my care. The only draw back to her is the long wait for our initial consultation. After that, appointments were easy to schedule.

I would tell prospective patients that the level of care and compassion that she provides is worth the long wait for an appointment.

Initially, I had cysts on both ovaries due to previous treatment. I was put on birth control to make the cysts go away for one cycle. During this time, I never felt that she "forgot" about me. Now that the cysts are gone, we are proceeding with an IUI with Letrozole and Ovidrel.

I don't have anything to compare it to, but it seems on-par with the cost of other clinics.

As stated before, My husband and I had seen fertility doctors before who told us we were not meant to be parents. Each and every time that doctors words come to my mind Dr. Schutt goes out of her way to explain what great parents we will be. She always asks "what do you think about this" which gives me a moment to pause and say the fear or questions I have. She is never rushing us to the next person, I don't think I have seen her wear a watch or have a clock in her office. I often cry at appointments and when I say " I am sorry for crying" she always tells me that She cried a lot to and it is normal to cry. I know that doctors in fertility know the desperation everyone has when they visit. With the other doctors I always felt like a walking dollar sign but with Dr. Schutt, I feel like she is on my team. I feel as though while we are fighting this battle she has picked up the sword and is running full force in to the mess with us. No strings attached. Just wants to help us.

Skip everyone else. See her first

We started seeing her a few months ago, I did an ultra sound and some labs. I took some medication to start my period because I had not ovulated in over 3 months. Since then we have been playing the waiting game to see what is the best option. At first we planned on doing IUI this month however my husbands labs came back lower than we planned, so she took them time to explain IVF to us. A few of my friends have tried and lost children in IVF so I felt like I lost all of my hope. She sat with us for 30-45 minutes to calm me down and even changed my mind on IVF. I know we are in the begging stages of all of this, but I feel so much hope with her.

That really depends on insurance. Our visits are $80 each time. Blood work depends on what they are looking at but when I went it was $120. We looked at IUI and for everything it was $625 and now we are saving for IVF which for meds and everything around $25K (at most)

Dr. Schutt explained all of the procedures and test in layman’s terms, she explained what all the results of those tests meant, and always let us know what the “game plan” would be or what our schedule may look like going forward. Throughout our journey she would always show compassion and empathy when our results were negative. And when we had our miracle baby during our first FET she came and visited us in the hospital.

Be prepared for the work up and treatment cycles to take a few months.