Is your RE open on a Sunday?

chicagobride_07

And I am wondering if this makes a difference.  I was looking at the website of one RE (not mine) and it said something like- available 7 days a week- if your fertility clinic isn't they don't care about getting you pregnant.

Of course, I know how important timing is with all this.  This made me think.  Recently, my best date for an IUI coincided with a really important meeting at work.  I had to try to juggle my schedule- I asked if the RE could do the IUI in the afternoon (same day) instead of the first thing in the morning.  The nurse was pretty rude about it and said I needed to be making having a child my first priority.  Fine, OK- I got the time off.  However- what if that crucial time happened on a Sunday?  Would this nurse and the RE be coming in?  They are closed on Sunday.  Suddenly, the timing aspect just got more flexible, I guess. 

delino

My clinic is open 7 days a week, but they do close for holidays.  I don't know what would happen if an ER or ET fell on a holiday.

ARS0805

(Although, I haven't actually been to see him yet...) My RE's office is open from 8:00 am to noon on Saturday and Sunday.  

 

On another note, I have read on here that many RE's seem to like you to come first thing in the morning for monitoring.  We live 2.5 hours away from our clinic (the only RE in the state. le sigh).  Not looking forward to the early morning drives!

 

But I do find it quite ironic that THEY get to decide how important the timing is...  

gervaisj6

They are open every day of the year, except Christmas

4legsRbest

gervaisj6:

They are open every day of the year, except Christmas

This for me too!

 

Roxie5739

Mine is not normally open but if monitoring or an ER/ET is needed then they open for these cases only. An RE cannot just not be opened on a weekend or holiday. They cannot predict the exact dates for an ER/ET upfront so all will work on weekends/holidays if needed.

iguana33

My RE is available 365 days a year for timing sensitive monitoring and procedures.  But all of the monitoring is limited to the morning.  I think they try to work with you though.  I am a little annoyed, because I have to have a hysteroscopy done, and they will only do this on a Tuesday.  

 I am also in Chicago.  I go to FCI River North.

tptbabe

Ours has regular open hours 365 days a year for cycle monitoring. (Only for 45 minutes early in the morning on Sundays and holidays) I don't know all the details for ER/ET, but I would assume that if those days fell on a weekend or holiday that they would do it then? I mean, it's not like they're going to cancel a cycle because you're not ready during banking hours? That would be one heck of an investment lost.

And I also think that that's some strange wording that they put in there. It almost makes me think that they're trying to work on the emotions of patients so that they go with them instead of some clinic that doesn't "care about getting [them] pregnant" you know? Kind of rude if you ask me.

AmCheri

Yes they're open, but it's not for a full business day. They're open long enough to do all of the necessary u/s and b/w and then to call with the results. 

Gregermis

If appointments are necessary, yes they are open on Sat/Sun, but the attempt to schedule them M-F if they can.

pinkmickey24

My RE's office is open seven days a week and they close down for two weeks (the week of Christmas and the week after). When we first met with our RE he said they close for those two weeks since they are open everyday of the year other than those 14 days. I know if my cycle had started one day later then it did in November they would not have allowed me to cycle for IVF until the following month, so that ER and ET would be in January.

Ironmom2be

4legsRbest:

gervaisj6:

They are open every day of the year, except Christmas

This for me too!

 

Ditto this! 

hugmonkey

Mine is open 7 days a week.

brooklynesque

Mine is open every day except for a couple of days around Xmas/New Years.  Plus they shut down the embryology lab for maintenance 2-3 times a year so there are some blackout periods where they won't start you on an IVF cycle (though they still do monitoring, testing, IUIs, etc. while the maintenance is being done). 

rebaann

My local office is open for monitoring on the weekends.  If you need something more than that, you can get weekend appointments at the Rockville office.

chicagobride_07

Oh wow- it sounds like being closed on Sunday is really in the minority.

lincoln79

mine will do iui, but no beta test. as if 14 days isn't long enough, we need to make it 15 or 16... ugh

MelleTX

My RE is there for me whenever I need him to be - Saturday, Sunday, Easter - Christmas. You name it. 

I did an IUI on Christmas once. I felt so guilty it didn't work.

My RE is in a single-physician practice though. He does everything. His cell phone is on the office voicemail - no answering service.

I asked him once if he ever went on vacation. His response was that he took the wife and kid to Austin for the weekend last year. (Austin is 3 hours away). 

versace1008

I go to FCI in Hoffman Estates, they are not open on Sat or Sun at all...I was thinking that too what if the crucial time is on the weekend? Mon and Fri at my clinic are super busy! its funny that the drs dont think we have jobs, how do they think we are footing the bill for the services we have to pay for there!!!

My dr only works 2 days a week in the Hoffman Estates office from 9-1:45, my ob recommended her so I did so there but i dont have to see the dr that often,mostly its blood and u/s...those hrs are not very convenient at all for me!

 

PennyLane26

Mine is also open on Sunday's and all holidays.

chicagobride_07

Versace: that is interesting- FCI is so huge- you would think they would be open on weekends.  Maybe they would send you to another facility in their network if something crucial needed to be done on a weekend?

We saw Dr. Sipe (FCI- River North) for an initial consult.  We ended up not going with FCI.  If I had better insurance coverage, we might have.  But we are out of pocket for alot of things and wanted somewhere that was more flexible on the pricing, and also where I'd get more interaction with the actual RE throughout th process (not the nurse).  I did not get that vibe from Dr. Sipe at all. 

GL!

Smiley-1980

My office is open every single day. Even holidays. Not everyone can get an appt though. Weekends and holidays are usually just for IUI and IVF patients. 

laureniskeen

Mine is a network with more than one office. My local office is only M-F, but one just 20 minutes farther is open all week, and all of the Dr.'s and nurses work in tandem with each other. Im assigned to one specific Dr, but another has done my ET as well as IUI. I think the idea of closing is weird...women cant control their trigger days, or what their body does.