First consultation

The day has finally arrived, we have our first appointment at the Assisted Conception Unit.

Firstly a bit about how long it took to get here, back in August the final tick was placed on the form to say we had fulfilled all the requirements for NHS funded IVF after a 2 year journey. We were told it was an 18 week pathway so to expect to hear from them January time. A few days later we received our letter in the post requesting all sorts of proof; P60’s, wage slip’s, utility bill’s, passport’s and driving licences , all these were required to prove we are entitled to NHS treatment. I posted those off mid September and thought to myself now we can exhale a bit until January.

Walking around  the shops mid October I receive a phone call from a lady at the Assisted Conception Unit advising she is calling to make our first appointment, I was taken aback to say the least so I asked her does that mean we have the funding and she said oh yes sorry I should of said that at the beginning of the call ! No romanticising this! The appointment was made for 28th November earlier than we thought !

I of course googled everything I could think of  prior to the appointment, read blogs , scoured forums but in the end I was so confused by it all.

So off we go to the hospital, we check in at the Gynaecology reception and make our way to the waiting area, we have to walk past the early pregnancy unit which made me sad as the last time we were here we were told that our bubba’s heart was no longer flickering at 10 weeks.

We get called into the consulting room and meet our Doctor, lets call her Dr D. Dr D ask’s about my medical history, this I found frustrating as this was all taken down previously in order to submit our application . Dr D advised that I need to have an internal scan before we can plan treatment as my medical history has thrown a curve ball. She advised that she did not have time to talk through all the treatment plan as we had used the time up on the medical history, again very frustrated. Dr D gave us a sealed folder to take away   which contained forms to fill in and literature to read . Dr D also said we needed to have more blood tests. Hubby is a scaredy cat of needles so grumbled a lot however soon wound his neck in when I told him this is the worst he would need to go through over the next few months !

I will open the folder later and update tomorrow.