Summer James (deceased)

Dr. James is very knowledgeable in her field. She has also gone through infertility treatments herself and can easily relate to your feelings. She spends time in each appointment showing you exactly what she is looking for and makes adjustments to your cycle schedule as needed. I would recommend Dr. James to anyone who feels they’re at the end of the fertility road and needs one last chance. She made adjustments in our cycle plan and I believe it made us successful to welcome our baby girl in August 2019.

Trust your doctor. She has a lot of experience.

Dr. James was able to retrieve 3X the amount of eggs of my previous Doctor. I was very pleased with that. We did not have any viable embryos from the first retrieval. On the second ER we still were able to retrieve 20+ eggs. My husband underwent a microtese to retrieve the sperm. We ended up with 9 fertilized eggs. 2 made it to blastocyst stage on Day 7. We sent off for PGS testing and one came back normal. Since we only had one viable embryo, Dr. James recommended that I go through and do the ERA test. The test came back suggesting 12 more hours of progesterone. We did a second ERA with the suggested 12 extra hours of progesterone and the results were correct. At this point we were ready to transfer our Day 7 embryo. I believe that Dr. James helped increase our chances of success by encouraging us to do the ERA tests twice.

For our first IVF/ICSI cycle with medication we spent $16,000. Four our second IVF/ICSI cycle with medication, microtese and two ERA and PGS testing we spent $26,000.

We only had one embryo, therefore it was not a topic of our treatment plan.

Hormonal treatments definitely affect how you process information. As someone pursuing becoming a single mother by choice, you don't have the benefit of having another person there to listen and process the same information received. That said, Dr. James managed to navigate the emotional waves I was going through while providing logical and scientific explanations (which I found very helpful since I am an analytical thinker that likes to process data). I found her to be very warm and compassionate without going overboard to a point where I wouldn't trust a doctor that didn't give it to me straight.

Don't be afraid to ask a lot of questions or make requests regarding your care.

Initially we used Clomid and upped the dosage with each cycle for IUI. When I experienced an ectopic pregnancy resulting in losing a tube, we moved on to injectible follistim. The benefit of moving onto injectibles fairly quickly is that we got to see how my body responded in the likelihood I needed to move on to IVF. By the time I decided to try IVF, my response to the medications was very predictable. While Dr. James was able to pretty accurately predict how many eggs we would retrieve and ultimately how many embryos there would be, we were both surprised that there were not more PGS tested normal embryos.

Fortunately, much of my care was covered by insurance. I recall ultrasounds being around $200/visit.

She was one of the best Drs I've ever had in any specialty. She was the one to call and discuss results with us. When we finally got pregnant we got pregnant with twins, she was so happy for us. A few weeks later when we lost Baby B she was crushed by the news as well. She spent so much time making sure I was comfortable and was honest and helpful without sugar coating our situation. I know we wouldn't have our miracle baby without her hard work.

GO TO HER! She will change your life for the better. We are so lucky we found her.

Cycle 1 - 5mg Femara, Ovidrel trigger shot. Lots of ultrasounds. Timed Intercourse. Negative. Cycle 2 - Repeat Cycle 1, cancelled due to lump in breast. Cycle 3 - 7.5mg Femara, Ovidrel trigger shot. Lots of Ultrasounds, Timed Intercourse. Negative. Cycle 4 - 12.5mg Femara, Ovidrel trigger shot, sperm wash, IUI #1. Negative Cycle 5 - 12.5mg Femara, Ovidrel trigger shot, sperm wash, IUI #2. During the mid-cycle ultrasound she decided she wanted our 2 follicles to grow two extra days before the trigger shot. This was the game changer. Those two extra days gave us the 2 large follicles and two smaller ones. 4 chances. Positive-Pregnant with Twins.

That was the best part. The first three cycles we paid about $1800 apiece. My husbands job switched insurance at the beginning of the year and Nora was able to negotiate with our insurance to get our IUI's covered. It was $150 for the IUI instead of $1800 for Timed Intercourse.

Dr. James was to the point without making me feel like she was short. There wasn't a lot of fluff in our communication, but I felt like she always addressed my concerns, needs and questions. I felt extremely comfortable with her and felt as though she was incredibly knowledgeable. I never felt stupid asking questions or having her reiterate information.

I think I would give the same advise to anyone going to a fertility doctor - be patient and don't get discouraged if the treatments don't work the first, second or third time (or more). We swore our fourth cycle wasn't going to work and I was extremely frustrated. Low and behold, it worked and we will be having a little girl in a few months!

I had been to two other doctors previously and had been struggling to get pregnant for about a year and a half before seeing Dr. James. The previous doctors had perscribed Clomid and it didn't work. After running a lot of tests, Dr. James put me on Femara combined with Ovidril shots. The first cycle only produced one egg (I believe it was 2 Femara pills/day), the second cycle produced 2 eggs (3 Femara pills/day), the third cycle produced 6 eggs which caused us to make the decision to skip the trigger shot (4 Femara pills/day) and the final cycle (2.5 Femara pills/day) produced 1 large egg and eventually a baby!

Every visit, especially when I had to get an ultrasound, was $204. When I found out I was pregnant and had ultrasounds with the baby, the price when up to about $335. The initial consultation was somewhere around $350. In total, we probably spent a total of $3K once you add up all of the blood work, office visits and prescriptions.

She is brisk, but she never treated me as if I was unintelligent and was always willing to go over things until full understanding was reached. She accepts calls after hours that were not strictly emergency and was kind and professional even though she was off work for the day.

Ask questions, and bring a notepad to write down the treatment plan as you go.

While doing an iui with injectables Dr. James did ultrasounds fairly frequently and would adjust dosage based on what your body was actually doing. It can be more expensive, but Dr. James’ goal is a safe singleton pregnancy.

She was extremely knowledgeable, warm, and compassionate. I felt very comfortable and cried when it was time to go back to my OB because she made it all possible. She had a great sense of humor and beside manner that made you trust her.

Go with an open mind and think through all the options presented.

We completed the HSG to determine no blockages prior to any treatment. We did one cycle with Clomid and trigger shot. We opted to go with the IUI to increase our odds.

Dr James does speak fast but she will always find a way to break anything down that we didn't understand fully. When we had our miscarriage we sat down with Dr James for over an hour talking about past losses and what we should do next. Dr James has always done every procedure I've attended.

Don't feel rushed by the fact she speaks fast. She will break anything down for you and will never rush you or make your questions seem small. She is straight forward and to the point, she won't take you anywhere she feels won't work.

Extremely knowledgeable and she is able to teach us through drawing pictures, research articles and handouts. She was always prepared with new information each visit. I think her approach is on the aggressive side. If she tried a med or technique for 3 cycles without success she pushed to move to the next level of treatment. Great bedside manner. The only thing I can think of that might be negative to some is that if she wasn’t working when it was time to ovulate I saw another doctor. That didn’t bother me because the practice made sure you meet all of the doctors at some point.

Trust her. She does ALL the research for you.

Dr. James is a very good doctor. I have referred her to several of my friends. She is very informative. Dr. James explained to us everything detail by detail. I always feel comfortable when going to my appointment.

If you are looking for a female doctor she is very good!

I used clomid the first round and ended with with an ectopic pregnancy. Second round didn’t take so she gave me higher dose and it worked for me.

Well unfortunately my insurance does cover fertility treatments. But the out of pocket cost was less then we expected.

She was kind... just didn’t feel very personal with her...we were traveling from out of town... so her attitude wasn’t really worth the travel anymore...I wish we could have gotten better results... unfortunately we didn’t have the money to go into the more in depth treatments...

If you aren’t looking into more in depth treatment find someone else.

Very costly... I was so shocked at the number she gave me for IVF... 25,000.00