After 1 m/c and TTC for a year I am starting to look into making the switch over to an RE.
I have no friends that have been through IF and don't even know where to start with finding one.
So I though perhaps some of you might have recommendations. I live in Piscataway near Rutgers and work in Freehold. I don't know how important it is to have one that is close to you.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
TIA!
Re: can you recommend a RE in central NJ
I believe RMA has an office in Somerset. I was a patient at their Morristown office.
www.rmanj.com
hi
i went to the center for advanced reproductive medicine and fertility in edison. i saw dr corsen. i was ttc for over a year. i went there, he suggested iui. i am pregnant on my second cycle, due in early july. they are all very nice in the office...good luck to you.
hey! I went to SIRM for my dd thats in bedminister got pg on first ivf/icsi cycle
then i went to Dr.Corsan at the Advance REPRODUCTIVE CENTER in Edison ......And now we are pregnant with our twins due in feb they are ivf/icsi/ah babies
I went to their office in Somerset & loved Dr. Hock. We saw several others doctors throughout my pregnancies, and loved them all though. I'm so sorry that you are going through this, it's certainly not the route that anyone would wish to go down. Good luck!
Oh, one more thing... I think that it is important to find someone close to home or work. RMA holds most of their appointments when you are actively trying or are pregnant during early morning hours 6-7:30am, so unless you want to get up even earlier in the morning, I would recommend finding someone close.
BFP#2 5/11/09 :: Natural m/c 5/27/09 @ 5w5d
BFP#3 7/24/09 :: Missed m/c, baby stopped growing at 6w4d :: natural m/c 8/28/09 @ 8w6d
BFP #4 11/27/09 :: DD born 7/27/10
BFP #5 2/29/12 :: DD born 11/6/12
I went to their office in Somerset & loved Dr. Hock. We saw several others doctors throughout my pregnancies, and loved them all though. Good luck!
BFP#2 5/11/09 :: Natural m/c 5/27/09 @ 5w5d
BFP#3 7/24/09 :: Missed m/c, baby stopped growing at 6w4d :: natural m/c 8/28/09 @ 8w6d
BFP #4 11/27/09 :: DD born 7/27/10
BFP #5 2/29/12 :: DD born 11/6/12
I went to their office in Somerset & loved Dr. Hock. We saw several others doctors throughout my pregnancies, and loved them all though. Good luck!
BFP#2 5/11/09 :: Natural m/c 5/27/09 @ 5w5d
BFP#3 7/24/09 :: Missed m/c, baby stopped growing at 6w4d :: natural m/c 8/28/09 @ 8w6d
BFP #4 11/27/09 :: DD born 7/27/10
BFP #5 2/29/12 :: DD born 11/6/12
Kelly - Hi remember me? Sorry to hear about your m/c.
I HIGHLY recommend Dr William Ziegler and the ENTIRE staff at Reproductive Science Center of NJ. It is a HUGE family atmosphere and as far as I'm concerned, I can't imagine a better doctor, with all my husband and I went through.
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I've also really liked IVF NJ in Somerset (now pregnant with #1 ) I preferred them over RMA NJ for two reasons:
1) IVF NJ has their doctors, not their nurses, call you personally on a daily basis during your cycle. That made a huge difference to me. I adore nurses and think they all deserve sainthood, but I felt much more confident knowing that a RE was looking at my progression every single day.
2) IVF NJ has similar success rates as RMA NJ but is about half the size. This is hugely important for monitoring visits. RMA NJ is such a massive high traffic disaster on weekday mornings that they actually put out free bagels, knowing that you will be waiting at least 90 minutes for a five-minute exam by one of their 10+ harried doctors who doesn't know your name and has only the vaguest idea of why you're there. In the meantime, you'll get a bloodtest from a phlebotomist who doesn't know your name and doesn't like their job (I had 5 visits, met 5 phlebotomists, and heard 5 different independently-offered stories about how much each of them didn't like their job and felt crushed by the workload).
At IVF NJ, you'll wait 30 minutes tops, the nurses will know your name, the doctors will know your history, and when you get a BFP, it will be a cause for celebration there (mine was ... I got hugged by so many people that I seriously almost started to cry)
I know that many people like RMA NJ, especially women who feel very connected to their RE there. That being said, I didn't. It was just way too massive and impersonal for me. This is probably in large part because I strongly disliked my doctor there. I felt she gave medical advice that was clearly against my best interest, prescribed a course of action that any layperson could tell obviously wasn't going to work, needed a reminder on my name the third time that I met her, never called me unless I asked her to, and couldn't have cared less about anything that I just wrote. My nurse there was a very nice woman, and I think she actually did care, but she accidentally handed me blank prescriptions and a printout of an email from ANOTHER PATIENT with personal medical information on it.
In closing, I went with IVF NJ and was pregnant via IVF seven weeks later.
Nov '10: IVF#1: BFP! Girl. Missed m/c at 14 weeks. Devastated
Apr '11: IVF#2: BFP! Twin Girls born on Dec 3, 2011 at 31w5d! One month in NICU.
Oct '13: IVF#3: BFP! Girl born Jun 19, 2014 at 38w3d!