IVF Phoenix

I was extremely happy work my care at IVF Phoenix. Dr. Couvaras was thorough with my work up, found my issues, treated them effectively, my pregnancy (IVF) was successful, and 9 months later I had my son. Thank you to Dr. Couvaras, Rhoda, Erin, and everyone else involved in my care! Mason is 9 months old now and we couldn’t be happier.

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I was extremely happy work my care at IVF Phoenix. Dr. Couvaras was thorough with my work up, found my issues, treated them effectively, my pregnancy (IVF) was successful, and 9 months later I had my son. Thank you to Dr. Couvaras, Rhoda, Erin, and everyone else involved in my care! Mason is 9 months old now and we couldn’t be happier.

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My husband and I went to ivf Phoenix because we wanted to have a baby girl and Dr. Couvaras and his wonderful team helped us make that dream come true. I am now pregnant with a girl and I 100% recommend ivf Phoenix . The doctor is very professional and makes sure everything is good so that the first try turns out great. Thank you!.

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My husband and I went to ivf Phoenix because we wanted to have a baby girl and Dr. Couvaras and his wonderful team helped us make that dream come true. I am now pregnant with a girl and I 100% recommend ivf Phoenix . The doctor is very professional and makes sure everything is good so that the first try turns out great. Thank you!.

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Dr. Couvaras and his team are amazing. Dr Couvaras is up to date on the newest research and studies.
After our last clinic suggested we find a surrogate we went to IVF Phoenix. He and his team were able to helping us have our first baby!
We have recommended him to others and will continue. Thanks Dr C and team

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It’s hard to even know where to start when it comes to talking about Dr. C and the IVF team because they’re truly all remarkable, one of a kind people. From the beginning of my first appointment with Dr. C I knew he was different than most doctors, and he proved that about himself time after time. He never seemed perplexed about anything that didn’t work, and he always had a plan. Throughout the almost 18 months I spent in his care, I truly felt like he was always thinking about me and how to help me achieve a pregnancy. I have had friends who went through treatment at other facilities, and they get responses to failure with “I don’t know why”. Dr. C always knew how to pivot and test more and research more. I call him my favorite mad scientist! As for the Team, they are always there to answer questions and respond to your texts and they always do it with a smile on their face. The care I received at IVF Phoenix was unmatched on many levels. I didn’t feel like just a number here, I felt heard and seen. Going through infertility is a horrible and exhausting thing, but this team will hold your hand through it all. I’ll forever be grateful for this team, and the 27 weeks I have spent pregnant thus far!.

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It’s hard to even know where to start when it comes to talking about Dr. C and the IVF team because they’re truly all remarkable, one of a kind people. From the beginning of my first appointment with Dr. C I knew he was different than most doctors, and he proved that about himself time after time. He never seemed perplexed about anything that didn’t work, and he always had a plan. Throughout the almost 18 months I spent in his care, I truly felt like he was always thinking about me and how to help me achieve a pregnancy. I have had friends who went through treatment at other facilities, and they get responses to failure with “I don’t know why”. Dr. C always knew how to pivot and test more and research more. I call him my favorite mad scientist! As for the Team, they are always there to answer questions and respond to your texts and they always do it with a smile on their face. The care I received at IVF Phoenix was unmatched on many levels. I didn’t feel like just a number here, I felt heard and seen. Going through infertility is a horrible and exhausting thing, but this team will hold your hand through it all. I’ll forever be grateful for this team, and the 27 weeks I have spent pregnant thus far!.

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It's hard to even know where to start when it comes to talking about Dr. C and the IVF team because they're truly all remarkable, one of a kind people. From the beginning of my first appointment with Dr. C I knew he was different than most doctors, and he proved that about himself time after time. He never seemed perplexed about anything that didn't work, and he always had a plan. Throughout the almost 18 months I spent in his care, I truly felt like he was always thinking about me and how to help me achieve a pregnancy. I have had friends who went through treatment at other facilities, and they get responses to failure with "I don't know why". Dr. C always knew how to pivot and test more and research more. I call him my favorite mad scientist! As for the Team, they are always there to answer questions and respond to your texts and they always do it with a smile on their face. The care I received at IVF Phoenix was unmatched on many levels. I didn't feel like just a number here, I felt heard and seen. Going through infertility is a horrible and exhausting thing, but this team will hold your hand through it all. I'll forever be grateful for this team, and the 27 weeks I have spent pregnant thus far!

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With infertility, nearly everything is awful until it isn't. You can be inundated with bad news and disappointment. That's why it's crucial to have a team behind you like Dr. Couvaras and IVF Phoenix.

One of the best things about Dr. C is his honesty. He will be up front with you about the challenges you will face, and equally important, when it is time to change directions and try something else. He doesn't just stick to the same protocol every round; he carefully evaluates how things went and makes adjustments to increase your chances of success.

The road to our son was long, at times heartbreaking, and looked nothing like what I imagined. Dr. C. didn't give up on me and suggested the alternative treatments that ultimately resulted in our little man.
The staff at IVF Phoenix is amazing. They held me when I cried (which was a lot), called to check on my physical and emotional well-being, and became like extended family. You could not ask for a better clinic.

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After 4 IUIs at another clinic, we made the move to IVF Phoenix and never looked back! We loved every minute of the care and consideration from the entire staff. Our experience with the egg retrieval and transfer went so smoothly and the care team reassured us and answered every question we had along the way! I type all of this as I watch my perfect 7 month old miracle feeds himself a bottle!

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So we saw Dr. Couvaris for an IUI that did not work. Understand we do not blame him or his office for that, we're still trying and we understand fully that there are so many factors to consider when it comes to becoming pregnant.

Dr. Couvaris may be an excellent physician. He may be a genius. But we don't really know since we've only briefly met him and literally everything he told us as far as our plan has changed since then. The frustrating thing is we don't know why things changed or if he was even involved in making those decisions or if his disaster of an office staff just made it up as they went along.

First and foremost every time I had to walk into that office it was just mainly obvious that the people behind the desk were bothered that I was there. Compound this with the fact that they do not know what they are talking about. When they answer our questions it's always via their portal and in a message that is written at a 5th grade level. The messages are so unclear and lacking in punctuation that they're more confusing and simply lead to more questions. When my wife left her IUI procedure she was given post procedure instructions from three different people, and absolutely every version was vastly different from the one before it. Completely unacceptable.

Also, prepare to be nickel and dimed into oblivion. Forget about getting labs or imaging from another provider if those might be covered by your insurance. Everything has to be done through them, and it always seems to be something new when you walk in their door. Show up for some labs? Oh hey, you need this $400 infusion that we never mentioned because we really think it will prevent you from having a miscarriage, you don't want a miscarriage do you?

This office clearly cares about one thing, and it frankly isn't your outcome. If they did they would show even the slightest interest in making sure their staff were all on the same page. It's all about the dollar for them, and their lack of consistency and absolute bottom of the barrel approach to patient relations is all the proof of this one needs.

Today they asked if we want to do another IUI and we told them we were unsure, but in the meantime we would like labs to sent to LabCorp so we can decide where we currently are in her cycle and make an informed decision. Despite the fact that they said we could use LabCorp this time, between the fact that they can't bill for these labs, and we haven't committed paying them more money, they can't be bothered to take send that lab order.

If I paid a mechanic this much money I would expect to be kept informed as to the progress of my car. This is literally the future of our family I am talking about here, and they have shown that they can't even be bothered in the least to keep us in the loop.

Seriously, ignore the reviews from people that are happy they got pregnant. Of course they're happy, they're finally having a baby. Look for reviews tempered with a little bit of reality. And the reality is they don't care. Their staff is so ignorant it's negligent, and there is NO WAY their administration isn't acutely aware of this, yet they choose to do nothing about it.

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I'm so grateful that Dr. Couvaras helped us become a family of four! It was a multi-year journey for our family - we welcomed our first daughter naturally in 2016 when I was 36 and thankfully had an easy time conceiving. I falsely assumed it would be easy to expand our family when we were ready again. I am healthy and love to work out so never thought it would be "a thing" for us.
In 2020, we tried to grow our family again. It took a few months to naturally get pregnant and I ended up having a miscarriage around week 8 or 9. Ironically my pregnancy confirmation was on our wedding anniversary and I would up having my first miscarriage that day. That was HARD. We waited a few months and still weren't having any success (and keeping in mind I was 40) so I reached out to a friend who experienced infertility. She's "that friend" that researches the heck out of her providers and she loved working with Dr. C. to have her daughter. Dr. C was the first fertility doctor that I worked with and I admired his wholistic and 'drilling down to the root issue' approach. He wanted to understand ME so he could create a custom roadmap for ME; not just pump me full of medication. At times, it was hard because his path for me required about six months of testing/assessment. His office was 50 miles from our house, I work full time and had a 4 y/o at the time so it was a lot to juggle. Plus, I am impatient and felt the time majorly ticking because I was now 41. I knew I had to trust the process as we ruled things out and got my body ready. There was nothing glaring to explain my secondary infertility and just chalked it up to my age. We decided that we would try the low-burn IUI route. The initial IUI worked but after a few weeks during a weekly ultrasound, the little embryo wasn't forming correctly. So we faced our second miscarriage in the fall of 2021. I felt like we had lost another year. I couldn't believe we were here again. We took a break to enjoy the holidays and reconnected with Dr. C in early 2022.
In January 2022, I made a swift decision to go all-in on for full on IVF. That even caught me by surprise! It moved so fast - ordering a large dollar amount of medication within a few days and learning how to navigate all of the pricks, pokes and prods. And alllll the bloodwork. Dr. C captured 12 eggs on my 43rd birthday - I knew it was a special sign and just focused on being so positive because I love my birthday. The next few weeks were probably the hardest of the entire process as I received daily calls with a dropping count of viable embryos. But there was one. And it passed the pgt (genetic) testing. As my friend said, we just needed one. I clung to that and repeated it to myself so many times.
We were gearing up for the embryo transfer in June 2022. Between February to June, Dr. C. put me on a specific cocktail of supplements and a small dose of medication to keep my body calibrated. I was at my final pre-embryo transfer appointment and Dr. C noticed my blood levels weren't right and that my uterus was in a funky position. This position had never happened before, and as anyone that has gone through the IVF process knows, there are A LOT of transvaginal ultrasounds. So he decided to delay the process because we had one precious embryo and he wanted my body in prime shape. This was a HARD pill to swallow (another delay) but I tried to focus on appreciating the fact that he wanted to give our embryo the best shot. Fast forward to October 26, 2022, we had our embryo transfer! My husband and I made a special day out of it, and as wild as it sounds, I had this warm glowing sensation in my abdomen the next several weeks. I felt like a dull ache (in a good way and it felt like something was growing/happening) for most of my first trimester. Fast forward again to December 30 when we had a small gender reveal party with our family on my mom's birthday (girl!) and fast forward even more to July 7, 2023 when we welcome our second daughter, Summer Hope, into our family. She's such a gift and we are so thankful for her - and while the waiting was very hard, this timing feels absolutely perfect.
The IVF process is a lot. And after hearing lots of other stories, our two year journey feels on the short side. Dr. C is clearly very intelligent and wants the best for his patients. I always tried my best to follow along as I best I could. He does use a lot of medical terminology that I wasn't familiar with so I asked a lot of clarifying questions - sometimes that helped and other times it didn't. It's a very rigid process but you have to trust him and follow his protocol. The process can change quickly because of the frequent lab draws. As a planner, you won't know the next several steps because it can change so frequently. You will get tired of taking the supplements. It's expensive (and I find him very affordable when I talk to other friends who went through other fertility doctors!). But I'm beyond grateful. Thank you IVF Phoenix!

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I absolutely love Dr. Couvaras at IVF Phoenix, his care is tailored to the individual, he really works hard to research, address and fix underlying issues before proceeding forward with transfers. He has helped me both in my health & wellness and my reproductive health. He is amazing at explaining what is going on, as well as what he will do. His team has gone above and beyond to accommodate my out-of-state travel And I truly appreciate that.

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This will be a novel...Dr. Couvaras is truly a miracle worker! Because of his great breadth of knowledge, we were able to conceive a HEALTHY baby girl through timed intercourse, a little bit of Clomid and HGH. We had undergone a 4 year fertility journey before we found Dr. C, and after our initial consult, it was only 3 months before we were pregnant!

He was our 3rd fertility doctor and a referral from my sister who's friend was unsuccessful for years at having children with several attempts of IVF until she went to him, she now has several children because of him. She also knew 3 other women who used him and had 3 successful pregnancies as a result who have all tried IVF at other places with no success.

Dr. C deals with the root cause of infertility and his methods may seem unconventional because it's not just westernized medicine, there's a component of nutrition and strict protocols I was to do as well. I was required to do extensive blood work and exams to help identify root causes. Because I lived out of state, I just went to a local lab testing center to get most of my work done and my previous fertility clinic for exams, as per his request.

He had me on blood thinner before and during pregnancy. The schedule he created for me was strict and based on my lab results (100g protein daily, limited carbs and no carbs after 7:30pm, exercise daily between certain hours, daily sun exposure, etc etc etc), to which I followed to a T. After all, I desperately wanted to get pregnant and with his methodologies, it only took 3 months of strict protocols (out of 4 yrs!). I understood his "tinkering" with me getting labs and exams throughout the entire time was priming and preparing my body with each tweak and adjustment and recommendation on his end.

Just to paint a picture, the previous two fertility doctors wanted me to immediately go the IVF route, whereas Dr. C wanted to get to the root issue before making his decision. The other doctors did some lab work and exams, identified I had low quantity egg count (as per my AMH levels) and considered my age to be a factor (I was over 35 at the time) and pushed for IVF.

I went the IVF route with the second doctor, the initial egg retrieval was about $20k and only 8 eggs were retrieved with only one fully maturing. When we got the results back from genetic testing, our hearts were broken when we learned it was an abnormal embryo and couldn't be implanted. The NP went over the results with me and very kindly, with excellent bedside manner, said if I wanted to do a "peace of mind" egg retrieval and it results into the same thing, we could then move onto an egg donor route. Essentially dropping another $20k to possibly end up with the same result; their predictions were that because of my age and low egg quantity, that I also possibly had low quality eggs as well.

Well, something didn't sit right with that answer. Although that's been an answer to so many women's prayers, it didn't feel right for our case. We ended up setting up a free consultation with Dr. C because what did we have to lose??!

I mentioned on 3 different occasions to Dr. Couvaras my concern with having "low quality eggs" and he wasn't concerned in the slightest based on my blood work. I was concerned I needed to go the IUI or IVF route based on previous assumptions, instead, he wanted to try timed intercourse first. We did that for our first cycle and I got pregnant! The only time I flew out to Scottsdale to his office was right before my timed intercourse so that I could get some IV fluids in to help with higher probability of conception, boy am I glad I did!

We are currently working with Dr. C for baby #2 and are so eternally grateful for his services! Our first baby is now 13 months old and is 100% healthy, happy and our little miracle.

By the way, my heart goes out to all the patients who haven't had as great of an experience as I have. Perhaps because Dr. C was my 3rd fertility doctor (from 3 separate clinics), I was more aware that his office might run differently than the previous two clinics. I hope this doesn't dissuade anyone from utilizing his services.

I also wasn't looking for comfort and compassionate bedside manner, I was looking for an effective doctor who could accomplish the task at hand -- the ability for me to get pregnant with my own eggs (not donor eggs) and my husband's sperm, and we were able to accomplish both.

Fortunately, he and his staff are great, but understand that he's very fast moving, he talks fast, he thinks fast and explains things in medical terms; he's not trying to dismiss you. My video consults were short and to the point, but that was completely fine with me because I received further instruction via their portal every single time.

Don't be afraid to ask him questions and address any concerns with him, he always listens. Also, I asked a TON of questions through their portal whenever I didn't understand something as well. They're super helpful!

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Dr Couvaras and his staff were great. They were honest and forth coming. They gave us straitforward answers and didn't exaggerate or give false hope when it didn't help. This is the third ivf clinic we worked with and wouldn't ever recommend anyone else. We owe our two sons and beautiful family to their great work.

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Great experience with Dr. Couvaras. I am forever thankful for him and his entire staff. I am finally pregnant after so many years of trying. Dr. Couvaras was not like any other doctor I worked with. He has so many different approaches and tricks. I highly recommend IVF Phoenix to any couple who is trying to build a family. Thank you Dr. Couvaras.

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