David & Alisa Jenkins
Hi my name is David Jenkins and my wife, Alisa and I had a baby! I know that sounds like a normal thing to have happen, but not when I have been impotent (I thought) for over 20 years and my wife had multiple complications herself.
I have 4 adopted kids (my youngest, Marcus is 18 now), and I had just accepted I would never have a biological child. The untouchable In Vitro doctors seemed to cater to rich couples who happened to be able to spend $10,000 to $20,000 a MONTH. I’m a magician, and I don’t have that kind of money laying around. I had accepted that I was done with children, and that my wife and I would never experience childbirth.
Then my brother-in-law and his wife got pregnant! We asked them how much it cost and we were amazed that it wasn't the tens of thousands of dollars we had ben told from In Vitro doctors we had contacted!
We started to look into it and found out that normal In Vitro is hard on a woman’s body. It harvests many unneeded eggs in a mass amount. In other words it forces her body to do something unnatural. It is like taking an apple tree and hooking a huge belt around its trunk then shaking the whole tree until hundreds of apples (both ripe and non-ripe) are shaken to the ground.
The Procedure my brother-in-law and his wife went throguh is safer and easier on the woman. As long as her body responds to the clomid (which most women do), this procedure safely harvests only the eggs that were available and the best in that cycle. It is like taking a ladder and picking only the very best ripe apples that are ready for harvest now, and that’s a lot easier on the tree! In other words you get the best eggs that are ready and don’t ‘shock’ the woman’s body into producing tens or hundreds of unneeded eggs right now.
This procedure is also much easier for the doctor to do, and so requires less time and equipment, and therefore it costs less! I only know of two doctors presently doing this procedure and people have flown from all over the nation and world to my doctor. Why aren’t more doctors doing this procedure? It is by far better on the woman and my doctor has higher success rates than the national average. The answer is simple, THEY MAKE LESS MONEY!! Most In Vitro doctors have huge facilities with huge advertising budgets and run people through like cattle (baby assembly lines). They make millions of dollars this way. Why would they want to charge 1/4 to 1/8 the price?
If you haven't guessed it, we got pregnant, and on the first cycle we did! See the picture of our beautiful Jade! Even though Jade is worth a million bucks plus, we didn’t pay that! I am so grateful for little Jade, and other people deserve to have children as well!
Dr. Andrew is such a great guy. He is willing to give you a free ‘snapshot’ consult about your situation (about a 10-15 minute call). Imagine having a kind, knowledgeable In Vitro Specialist to assist you and answer your questions. Whether you use him or not, you will find the information he shares and his personal thoughts on your situation to be invaluable. He is a kind, gentle, and unassuming doctor and very good at what he does.
Andrew, Lindsay, and Sophia
When we realized it would be difficult to become pregnant, we worried about when we would actually have a family. We’d been trying for almost a year and my regular OBGYN wasn’t sympathetic to our needs to figure out why we weren’t pregnant yet.
We both wanted a baby. We talked about our future baby, fantasizing about whose eyes, smile, or personality would be passed to our beautiful girl or boy. We watched other parents with their children at church, at stores, at restaurants with the realization that it might be a long wait. I hadn’t considered infertility treatments at the point when my friend recommended Dr. Andrew. Dr. Andrew had helped her and many of her family members conceive quickly, so I was instantly interested.
When my husband and I had our initial consultation appointment, Dr. Andrew spent nearly two hours with us. Dr. Andrew was exceptionally professional and knowledgeable, and I trusted he would help us have our family. He explained that he would be extremely assertive in his process and would waste no time in helping us. He was very forthright in his process and costs in the consultation; I new exactly what to expect and how much my husband and I would potentially pay.
The process was not always easy, but Dr. Andrew helped my husband and I have hope. Dr. Andrew didn’t waste time; if one treatment didn’t work, he was ready with another plan. Really, I have never felt a doctor cared as much as Dr. Andrew. We had every contact number possible for questions or emergencies, Dr, Andrew was always available to us. At one point we were going in everyday, including Father’s Day, and Dr. Andrew and his staff were there happy to help us.
We conceived 4 months after we met with Dr. Andrew. I know if we saw anyone else it would never have been that quick. We will go back to Dr. Andrew for all our babies, and we live an hour away. Dr. Andrew’s, Loretta, and other staff are sincerely caring, compassionate, professionals and now very dear friends… we will never forget all they did for us! Now we have a beautiful, amazing, and very loved baby girl.
James and Lyndsie
When my wife and I got married in 2002 we knew she might have a little bit of trouble getting pregnant, little did we know what we were in store for. My wife has polycystic ovarian syndrome as well as endemetriosis. Due in part to my lack of understanding of those conditions and to being overly optimistic we went through many months of trying to get pregnant on our own. This was very hard on my wife as each month would pass and each new period would start. During this time two of our sisters-in-law got pregnant as well as several of our friends. While we were very happy for them, their news only intensified our desire to get pregnant and start our family. Those were some tough times. I remember the countless times holding my wife as she cried on my shoulder. If only we could have seen 9 years ahead.....
It was about 1 year in to our marriage that we decided to seek medical help. We decided to make an appointment with Dr Andrew. He took the time to really understand our issues and help us formulate a plan to give us the greatest chance of getting pregnant. Within a few months of our first visit to Dr Andrew my wife was pregnant with our twins!! What a miracle!! It was a rough pregnancy, with the last 2 months in ante-partem at the hospital but my wife was amazing and in 2004 we welcomed our twins into our lives. 
We can't even begin to imagine life without them.
You might think that we had boy/girl twins and we were set. Well we wanted a little bit bigger family than that. When they were about 2 we decided to go back to Dr Andrew and try for another pregnancy. This time it didn't happen as quickly. My wife went through 2 unsuccessful IVF/ICSI cycles. The emotional toll was almost more than she could handle. There were many days that we wanted to give up. We were so blessed for the two children we had. We took a break for a while. After several months we felt like we needed to continue and try one more time. It was another IVF with ICSI cycle and it worked! We were pregnant again! After the difficult pregnancy with the twins we were glad it was just one. Our third beautiful little baby was born in 2008.
With the success we had with Dr Andrew and not feeling like our family was complete, we decided to try one more time. In 2010 we went one more time to Dr Andrew. We were going to try one IVF cycle and if it didn't work it would be our answer that our family was complete with the 3. Well it didn't work. It was one of the hardest times we've ever had. We still felt like our family wasn't complete. Were we being greedy? It was only a few years earler that we we didn't have any children and truly wondered if we ever would and now we had been blessed with 3 children. Yet once again we felt like we needed to try one more time. It really helped knowing how amazing Dr Andrew's success rates were. We hoped and prayed for one more miracle. And it happened! Pregnant again! Our sweet little baby has greatly blessed our home with her sweet little smile, she is such a happy baby. I am amazed at all my wife was willing to go through for our family. And we will forever be greatful to Dr Andrew and his staff. Dr Andrew truly has a gift for what he does and his embryologist Thomas is as skilled an embryologist as you will find anywhere.
I know there will be couples and probably mostly women who will come to this site. You have one of the most pure desires in the world - to have a child. My hope is that our story helps give you hope. We had our moments where we lacked hope and never could have imagined having a child of our own. It can happen for you. If you're considering calling East Bay Fertility Center I encourage you to call them. We're so, so glad we did.