We went through a few clinicns to beging with paying for consultations here there and bloody every where, we googled and googled to everything to be honest. when we went to darlington it just felt right to be honest so decided to stay with them and come back for some more details.
I think when you first start out you don't know a lot but you pick it up as you go along.
Charlotte donated her eggs both times so we got the procedure cheaper but then obviously had to buy the sperm.
You start out with a consultation and then counselling then they call you back, we had to wait until they had found a match for charlotted eggs before we could start a cycle so they were harvested and could be planted back once inseminated with our donnor sperm and the other ladies sperm, so the timing were right. Out first try did not work and embryos did nto servive the frezzing process the first time so had to go through the whole thing again of donating and harvesting, fertilising and insemination and frezzing embryos that were left.
1st Try 2 Embryo Transfers No
2nd Try 1 Enbryo Transfered Success
3rd Try 1 Embryo from frozen No
1 Enbryo, we are looking at all options now as dont want LO to be an only child. We have contacted adoption agencies and looking at doing home Insemination for a few months before we use or last embryo as you can only donnate your eggs 3 times and already done it twice. I have a little thread going if you want to read it as i wil be putting up all information about what is going on and there are some links that other people have put on the bottom which may help!!!!
Darlingtons Details
Sarah Day
Business Co-ordinator (North East)
The London Womens Clinic Darlington
Tel: 01325 371 070
Fax: 01325 371 071
[email protected]
We sent away for the OVA magazine which is free and they sent is all sorts.
Breif details for pricing guidance only this is from october last year cycle
The cost of a frozen embryo treatment cycle is:
Medication: £200.00 (Approx)
FER Cycle: £950.00
HFEA Fee: £75.00
Total: £1,225.00
If would like treatment, then she will need to ring the Clinic on day 1 of her cycle and attend for a scan on day 2 of her cycle.
February 2010 Cycle
The total amount you will need to pay is as follows:
Blood Test: £88.40
Donor Sperm: £1,000.00
HFEA Fee: £104.50
Total: £1,192.90
may need further blood screening prior to egg collection (HTLV 1&2) at a cost of £45.00. Also, if the embryos are cultured to Blastocyst stage, then there will be an extra cost of £225.00.
I hoep this give you a rough idea even to give you a guidance of everything sorry for the long post, i have some documents from when we started if you would liek them e-mailing to you to big to upload just PM me your email.
If you have an other question please ask.