Monitoring network
The hardest part of IVF is often the drive.
Nobody talks about monitoring. It is six to ten appointments per cycle, usually at 7am, usually booked the night before, and almost always at the treatment centre. We plan to build a network of local clinics to do those visits instead.
The problem, stated plainly
The visits are frequent
Stimulation runs roughly 8 to 14 days, with ultrasound and bloodwork every one to three days so dosing can be adjusted and the trigger timed correctly.
The timing is not negotiable
Monitoring happens early, because results must be read and dosing decided the same morning. Appointments are often confirmed only the day before.
The location is fixed
Most patients are told to attend the treatment centre for every one of those visits, regardless of how far away they live.
The cost is invisible
It does not appear on any quote: fuel, parking, childcare, and repeated early starts taken out of annual leave or unpaid time.
It decides who can treat
For rural and shift-working patients the monitoring schedule — not the medicine, not even the price — is what makes a cycle impossible.
The capability already exists
Thousands of OB-GYN offices, imaging centres, and labs already perform transvaginal ultrasound and hormone assays. The gap is coordination, not equipment.
How the network works
- Step 1
Your treating clinic sets the requirements
Which scans and assays it needs, to what tolerance, in what format, and by what time each morning. Nothing we do overrides that.
- Step 2
We assess local clinics against them
Licensure, clinical responsibility, ultrasound competence, assay turnaround, reporting reliability, capacity, and early-morning availability.
- Step 3
Results would go to the treating clinic, not to us
We are the coordination layer, not a party to your care. We do not interpret results and we do not hold your medical records.
- Step 4
You drive fifteen minutes instead of two hours
Same cycle, same treating clinic, same decisions — made from measurements taken near where you live.
Is there monitoring near me?
The network is still being built, so the honest answer today is almost certainly no. This check is not saved. To be counted, join the patient waitlist with your ZIP code — where people are waiting helps decide which areas we recruit first.
Where we are today
No clinics have joined yet, and we would rather say that than publish a map with pins on it that mean nothing.
Two things genuinely speed this up: patients telling us where they are, and people pointing us at the local office that already does their bloodwork.
What we are not
- Not a fertility clinic, and not your treating clinic
- Not a party to clinical decisions about your cycle
- Not an interpreter of your results
- Not a holder of your medical records
- Not a replacement for the relationship you have with your clinic
What we ask of partner clinics
- Appropriate licensure and named clinical responsibility
- Demonstrated competence in transvaginal follicular monitoring
- Assay turnaround that meets the treating clinic's same-morning deadline
- Reliable, correctly formatted reporting, every time
- Early-morning capacity, including weekends
- Written agreement before any patient is seen
Common questions
- What is satellite monitoring?
- During ovarian stimulation you need ultrasound and bloodwork every one to three days so the clinic can adjust your dose and time the trigger. Satellite monitoring means a qualified clinic near you performs those visits and sends the results to your treating clinic, instead of you travelling to the treatment centre each time.
- Why does this matter so much?
- A single IVF cycle can involve six to ten monitoring visits, usually early in the morning, often scheduled only the day before. For someone far from a fertility centre, or working shifts, that schedule can make a cycle hard to manage or impossible.
- Does my treating clinic have to agree?
- Yes, and that is correct. The treating clinic remains clinically responsible for your cycle. It decides which outside monitoring it accepts, which measurements it needs, in what format, and by what time results must arrive. We work to the treating clinic's requirements, not around them.
- Does monitoring locally reduce my chance of success?
- That is for your treating clinic to judge: it decides whether outside monitoring is acceptable and what standards it requires. Ask it directly before booking anywhere.
- Is there a cost to the patient?
- Monitoring visits are billed as they normally would be, by whoever performs them, and coverage depends on your plan. We do not add a patient fee on top.
- When will the network cover my area?
- No clinic has joined yet. The coverage checker on this page does not save what you type. Joining the patient waitlist with your ZIP code is how we see where people are waiting, and that tells us where people are waiting.
Tell us where you are.
Your ZIP code on the patient waitlist is the most useful thing you can give us.