{"id":8967,"date":"2019-10-24T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamap.accessfertility.com\/ie\/2019\/10\/24\/ivf-babble-ask-access-fertility-customers-company-helped-fertility-journey\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:21:02","slug":"ivf-babble-access-fertility-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accessfertility.com\/ie\/ivf-babble-access-fertility-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"IVF babble ask Access Fertility customers how the company has helped them on their fertility journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
This article first appeared on IVF Babble<\/a><\/p> The financial pressure<\/a> associated with IVF is one of the most common topics that our readers write to us about<\/p> Statistics show that the chances of getting pregnant on your first round of IVF are incredibly slim. This means a huge amount of financial stress layered on top of the emotional pressure that comes hand-in-hand when trying to conceive. Depending on where you are in the world, an IVF cycle<\/a> can cost anywhere between \u00a33,000 to \u00a38000 to start with. This is an enormous amount of money to find with no guarantee that it is going to result in the child you so desperately long for.<\/p> We have heard stories from many of you who have experienced high levels of debt has had to take out loans, borrow from parents, in fact, if you get a moment, log in to Instagram and take a look at this post on the IVF Babble page \u2013 you will see that you really aren\u2019t alone if you are feeling the emotional as well as the financial strain.<\/p> IVF babble recently published an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0Access Fertility<\/a>\u00a0team, which explains the service they offer, helping take the pressure from patients by offering them the chance to fix the cost of IVF treatment, meaning you get as many IVF cycles as you need over two years, with 100 per cent refund if you don\u2019t go on to have a baby.<\/p> We spoke with several Access Fertility patients to see how it is helping couples through IVF treatment. Here is what they had to say\u2026<\/p> Heidi and Gary: \u201cWe had three rounds of IVF on the NHS. We lost the first attempt which was absolutely devastating. It felt like our world had ended and I didn\u2019t think we\u2019d ever, ever be able to achieve our dream. But then amazingly we were successful on our second attempt!!. We were blown away with joy. We were so grateful for the child we had but we really, really wanted to give her a sibling. But, even though you get up to three goes on NHS, it stops when you are successful.\u201d<\/p> Melanie and Gary: \u201cOur IVF journey started four years ago now. We\u2019d gone to the doctors and had all the tests, been to the hospital, but things just weren\u2019t happening for us so we got referred for IVF. We had the treatment on the NHS initially, but it\u00a0didn\u2019t work. We got to a crossroads then took a little break to think about whether we were doing the right thing. We then decided it was actually what we wanted and decided to keep going with it.\u201d<\/p> Heidi and Gary: \u201cWe\u2019d heard of Access Fertility and we didn\u2019t think we\u2019d be able to afford it but we loved the idea of the refund system and the multi-cycle system. Worst case scenario that, if we didn\u2019t get a sibling in those three attempts, we would get something back.\u201d<\/p> Melanie and Gary: \u201cWe stumbled across Access Fertility. It seemed like a really good option for Mel in terms of making sure she didn\u2019t have any worries in terms of the finances behind it and could focus on the cycles \u2013 that we could have three more attempts basically. Rather than worrying each time \u2018oh god it\u2019s going to cost X amount of money, we\u2019re going to have to save that, then stop, then save up again\u2019. We just knew we had those cycles \u2018in the bank\u2019 if you like.\u201d<\/p> Angela and Claire: \u201cThe refund element to us meant that we really had that reassurance. If it all went wrong and we didn\u2019t get what we wanted and we couldn\u2019t extend the family in the way we were trying to, then actually there would be something there at the end of it, which hopefully we wouldn\u2019t ever need but we were considering a big amount of work on the house and we didn\u2019t know where the path was going to take us so it was the reassurance to say that if it does all go wrong there would be a refund element.<\/p> \u201cIt also meant it took some of the pressure off, if you had got that far down the line in however long it takes to go through the full programme, it meant if it hadn\u2019t worked you\u2019ve got something, even if you go and have a nice holiday at the end of it \u2013 just something to take a bit of the pressure off the financial side of it and relieve a bit of the emotional pain that we imagined would be there for us.\u201d<\/p> Heidi and Gary: \u201cThe worst thing is losing a cycle of IVF and not getting what you want and then having that finance worry after as well. I think a lot of couples would agree on that \u2013 you pay all that money for something you\u2019re not guaranteed to have at the end of it. With Access Fertility you get the option to try again, it\u2019s not the end of the road, that\u2019s what I see it as. With Access, in the worst-case scenario you know there\u2019s a chance you can try again.\u201d<\/p> Angela and Claire: \u201cWe probably spent more time thinking, not necessarily about the refund part, but almost the fact that we could go through three cycles without having to worry about things in the middle.<\/p> That was almost the more important part to us, hoping that we wouldn\u2019t need to think about the refund. So when we did our first pregnancy test not having to worry about \u2018if this doesn\u2019t work we can\u2019t afford another go\u2019 and not having to even think \u2018I need to transfer money around to be able to start the next cycle off we didn\u2019t have to think about anything. So once we\u2019d paid that initial money then it was done, it was gone.\u201d<\/p> Gemma and David: \u201cWe found Access Fertility so straightforward. Everybody that we spoke to, was happy to answer questions (and I had plenty of questions) before we signed up before we even decided to go ahead. I would ring up and ask questions and have those answered which meant that when we decided we would go ahead with the plan it was so straightforward.\u201d<\/p> Heidi and Gary: \u201cThe service at Access Fertility is second to none. From the very first phone call through to having Lexi \u2013 you don\u2019t feel like a statistic\/a number, it felt like a personalised service.\u201d<\/p> Gemma and David: \u201cEveryone tells you when you have fertility treatment that the best thing you can do is to try and stay as relaxed as possible, which is really hard when you\u2019re going through that treatment and you\u2019re wanting something so bad but, I feel, going down the Access route, that it eliminated part of that pressure.\u201d<\/p> Melanie and Gary: \u201cI would 100 per cent recommend Access Fertility to anyone that has maybe used up their NHS goes or doesn\u2019t have the funding of that I would say go for it. It\u2019s so easy and really does help take the stress away. It relaxes you, it\u2019s straightforward, it\u2019s easy and they\u2019re a great company to deal with\u2026and you get to bring home two little miracles like this, hopefully.\u201d<\/p> Heidi and Gary: \u201cI would say the best thing about Access Fertility is the fact that it takes the stress away as a couple desperate for children. The stress, the worry, the anxiety is so high so anything that helps take that away is a big, big plus. I truly believe that\u2019s why we conceived on the first attempt.\u201d<\/p> Melanie and Gary: \u201cFor me personally, the hardest thing to take actually when you\u2019re going through that process is friends, work colleagues and people around you who come into work or give you a call and say \u2018we\u2019re having a baby\u2019. That\u2019s not easy to take when you\u2019re going through that sort of process so it was a relief when we were finally able to tell our friends that it was our turn and we had these little two on the way.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article first appeared on IVF Babble The financial pressure associated with IVF is one of the most common topics that our readers write to us about Statistics show that the chances of getting pregnant on your first round of IVF are incredibly slim. This means a huge amount of financial stress layered on top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choosing-a-clinic","category-cost"],"yoast_head":"\nCan you tell us a bit about your IVF journey?<\/strong><\/h3>
Why did you choose an Access Fertility programme?<\/strong><\/h3>
What did the refund element mean to you?<\/strong><\/h3>
What did you feel about the multi-cycle approach?<\/strong><\/h3>
How did you find the process?<\/strong><\/h3>
What advice do you have for others pursuing IVF treatment?<\/strong><\/h3>
What was the hardest part of IVF treatment for you?<\/strong><\/h3>