Misconception by Jay-Jay Feeney

Author:Jay-Jay Feeney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: book, BIO000000
ISBN: 9781743435342
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013-08-22T12:00:00+00:00

Preparing for our fifth IVF cycle

The beginning of 2012 was a busy time for us. My mum, who had been living in Waverley, South Taranaki, wanted a break from the small town so came to stay with us in the middle of March. She owns an antiques shop in the main street of Waverley but it’s not a thriving metropolis, so earning an income is hard. Also, a huge storm hit the lower half of the North Island and damaged Mum’s shop (and house). The roof came off, rain came in, stock was damaged. Mum decided to shut up shop for a while and come and stay with us in Auckland. It worked out perfectly because we were between babysitters. Our latest morning nanny for Seven got a full-time job in PR so had left us just before Christmas. We had a friend helping us out until we found a replacement, but with Mum living in our house she could look after Seven in the mornings and we would save a few hundred dollars a week!

Mum ended up staying for most of the year, until about November. She loves cleaning and got a few jobs cleaning houses in the area. Another bonus of having Mum at home—I didn’t have to clean my toilets anymore!

Dom was adamant we should try Fertility Associates for our fifth cycle. The original doctors at Fertility Associates, Richard Fisher and Freddie Graham, introduced in vitro fertilisation to New Zealand in 1983. Fertility Associates went on to become the largest provider of fertility services in New Zealand. I had to agree with Dom—it was time to try something new.

It had been almost two years since our last cycle so I called Fertility Associates and made an appointment with the legendary Doctor Richard Fisher. He saw us within a couple of weeks. Our first appointment was for 8 May 2012.

At Ascot Hospital we took the lift to the third floor. When the doors opened I immediately thought, Wow.

FertilityPLUS is in the public sector and the clinic is at Greenlane Hospital. It’s quite small and dowdy in comparison to Fertility Associates, which is spacious, bright, clean, modern and expensive looking. There’s money to be made in baby-making! The walls were curved and the couches were curved, too. There was a lot of space so you could sit far enough away from other waiting couples to feel comfortable. At Fertility PLUS, there were about ten chairs in the waiting room, all next to each other, so your elbows often brushed other waiting couples, which was awkward in a room where no-one speaks to each other. It’s not like a normal doctor’s surgery waiting room where children play on the floor and you may smile across at a waiting patient and maybe even get chatting. Nobody talks to each other in a fertility-clinic waiting room. It’s a bit weird because we’re all there for the same reason and we all know why we are there.

Richard Fisher glided out of his office and walked toward us beaming.

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