The IVF Roadmap: Everything You Need To Know Before, During and After IVF in Australia - Paperback

The IVF Roadmap is the first comprehensive IVF guide built specifically for the Australian system.

If you are starting your IVF journey, you probably have a lot of questions about the process such as:

• When should you start IVF?
• How do you go about choosing a clinic?
• How does donor conception and surrogacy work in Australia?
• What does IVF actually cost, and what does Medicare and private health insurance cover?
• What injections are involved?
• How do you survive the two-week wait and the strain on your relationships?
• And if a cycle doesn't work, what then?

This is the honest, judgment-free book that answers all of it, written by an Australian lawyer who went through IVF and infertility herself.

Table of contents

1. Is It Time?
2. The Big Picture
3. Common Myths about IVF in Australia
4. Choosing a Clinic
5. Understanding Your Diagnosis (Or the Absence of One)
6. Medicare and the Real Cost of IVF in Australia
7. The Add-Ons: ICSI, PGT-A, Donor Gametes, Storage Fees and More
8. What Private Health Insurance Covers
9. Budgeting and Financing More Than One Cycle
10. How a Cycle Actually Works, Step by Step
11. The Decisions Behind the Process
12. Complementary Approaches: Diet, Exercise, Acupuncture and More
13. Injections and Monitoring
14. Egg Retrieval and Embryo Transfer
15. The Two-Week Wait
16. When a Cycle Doesn't Work: What Happens Next
17. Frozen Embryo Transfers and Subsequent Cycles
18. Donor Conception and Surrogacy
19. Fertility Preservation
20. Grief and Staying Connected as Partners
21. Telling the People Around You and the Impact of Faith
22. Support Networks
23. When to Consider Stopping, Pausing, or Exploring Alternatives
24. If It Works: Pregnancy After IVF
25. If It Doesn't Work: Rebuilding and Redefining What Comes Next