Jacquelyn Shaw

Dr. Shaw was equal parts empathetic and matter of fact in helping us forward with our fertility situation. She ran every test possible to try and help us make sense of our recurring miscarriages to conceive our second child, and was a supportive guide when deciding whether it was time to stop trying on our own and move forward with IVF. Once we started IVF, she was so phenomenal. She was incredibly communicative about the process, and always tried to be the one seeing us for morning monitoring scans etc. Her medication plan for our cycle felt really specific for us and our situation, and her confidence about the plan made me feel at ease (as best possible when doing IVF!). Our egg retrieval yielded better results than expected given my AMH, and I entirely think that’s because of her mediation selections and her perfect for each step of the process. Once our transfer resulted in a pregnancy, she made me feel SO supported during the early weeks and initial scans, as I was very anxious after so many miscarriages before IVF. When it was time to graduate to the regular OBGYN, I genuinely missed getting to go see her and work with her (though was so grateful to make it to that point because of her!).

Aside from recommending you absolutely work with her, I’ve got nothing! Before working with her, we had started with a doctor at another clinic. I just didn’t feel much empathy or human connection with that previous doctor, and I’m so glad I listened to my gut to find someone else, because otherwise we never would have had the opportunity to work with Dr. Shaw.

I waited too long to write this so I don’t remember my exact protocol, but in addition to the Gonal-F and Menopur, we also used Clomid for the first five days. For my transfer, we did a natural cycle supported only with a trigger shot for ovulation. We used progesterone suppositories and added in estrogen patches per Dr. Shaw’s recommendation after reviewing my initial blood work after my positive HCG tests.

Morning monitoring was definitely busy, but it felt very organized and they moved people through as quickly as possible while still offering thoughtful care. There was only one visit I remember that felt like it took unreasonably long. But aside from that, it felt pretty manageable! The smaller NYC location often felt quicker than the larger location, but I just went to whichever office Dr. Shaw was at so that she could do my scan!

Insurance did not cover any of our treatments, so we had to pay entirely out of pocket. The cost felt in line with our expectations for IVF treatment.

We didn’t consider a multiple embryo transfer, so never really discussed this!

Although Dr. Shaw is one of the newer attending reproductive endocrinologist physicians at NYU Langone Fertility Center, she is very knowledgeable and up to date on all the potential options for us to grow our family as a queer (AFAB Nonbinary & female) couple. Despite being relatively young and having no known fertility issues, she was thorough in testing us both to ensure we didn't waste our time and were able to take the best path forward in making our long term family goals. Both my spouse and I went through egg retrievals and embryo freezing and were very happy with Dr. Shaw's management of our cycles. We both have slightly low AMH for our age (me especially) and Dr. Shaw accounted for that in my protocol by adding clomid which was very effective. I felt there was a great deal of thought and individualization put into each of our cycles (e.g. medications and dosages, dosage and timing of the trigger shot, etc.) We greatly look forward to doing our embryo transfers with Dr. Shaw later this year! She is so friendly, kind, patient and has amazing bedside manner!

Ask questions! I am a nurse in a different field (emergency) and so I very much nerded out wanting to learn EVERYTHING about fertility treatments and felt a little embarrassed to ask so many questions and want all the details and explanations for things but Dr. Shaw was very encouraging of my curiosity.

Both my spouse and I did antagonist protocols (menopur, gonal f, cetrotide starting ~cd5), with mine having clomid tablets (added for the first 5 days of my cycle due to possible poor response with an AMH of 0.9. My spouse had an AFC of 10 / AMH of 1.8 - their retrieval yielded 13 eggs of which 5 fertilized and we got 3 blasts, 2 euploid embryos. I had an AFC of about 12, got 11 eggs, 9 of which fertilized with a final result of 2 euploid and one mosaic embryos. The IVF attrition rates are so hard and especially on a 1st cycle it is difficult to ascertain how to get the best results but we are very happy with the attention to detail of our individualized protocols and communication throughout.

Dr. Shaw was very knowledgeable and discussed the many options open to us as a queer (female & AFAB NB couple) during our initial consult. Other than my partner (they/them) being misgendered occasionally, our experience was generally LGBTQ+ affirming.

Our cycles were covered by progyny insurance so we only ended up having to pay a couple thousand for med co-pays and then the bulk of the price was the donor sperm.

NYU made it easy for us in terms of coordinating through the specific donor sperm coordinator at NYU and our Sperm bank Xytex.

Dr Jacquelyn Shaw is very kind and have a very human way to treat me as her patient. All the questions I asked where answered. The one thing forgot to ask what her success rate was with patients like me or with a similar profile. That said, if money is not an issue and you don’t mind being use as a trial-error then I think all doctors need a change. Knowing what I know now after visiting a doctor that specializes on woman over 40 and based on the protocol that was given to me back at NYU Langone, it almost felt like I was given the default treatment. Dr. Shaw even mentioned that is normal and normally the first IVF cycle is more of a primer and perhaps my body will be best prepare for a new cycle. Now I know you can skip egg retrieval if you egg count is too low. Again, I do wish I did a bit more research and get treatment with a Dr. with significant success rate. All that said, I think Dr. Shaw is great for perhaps woman under 40. I strongly feel she has a great future ahead of her. She cares, she wants to do what is best, and is very professional. I am currently seeking treatment with a Dr. that specializes of woman over 40. It makes a huge difference to work with someone who have seen multiple people in your circumstances and with success stories. I feel a lot more confident about the treatment and my changes of success. If I was in my early 30’s I will visit Dr. Shaw. Bottom line, Dr Shaw is a good doctor, yet I wish I looked for someone with significant years of experience with woman over 40.

Let patients know your sucess rate and transparency about how many patients over 40 have shee seen and had personally sucess working with. I wish I knew that vasectomy reversal was potentially a better option vs sperm retrieval. I wish if I had a low egg count that we waited until my following perior to do a retrieval or even to do a retreival and keep the frozeen eggs and wait until a second retrieval to have the frozen eggs from the first one and fresh eggs from the secong retrieval to made embryos. I wish there was more care from the nuse team on the medication ordering. I keept a lot of medication that lukely I will use but if not that would of been at leat $1000 dollar of unused medication.

Clomin 100 GS for 5 days. with 300UI Gonal , 150 Menupur, 300UI Gonal , 150 Menupur until egg retrieval Cetrotide during day 8, 9 and 10 Lupron 50 units day 11 and 12

$18,000 for IVF. It doest not include embryo testing. and $7,000 medication

NYU langone does not advovate multiple embryo transfers wich I understood and strongly suggesting the Embryo analysis.