Backstory Health blog
Keeping your whole story.
Practical guides to gathering and organizing your medical records, so the right history is ready when you need it.
How to organize your IVF records when you’ve been to more than one clinic
A practical way to gather IVF records from every clinic, lab and portal into one place: what to request, how to name files, and a one-page summary for each cycle.
Switching IVF clinics? The records to bring to your first consult
A checklist of the records to gather before a first consult at a new IVF clinic, from baseline tests and cycle summaries to embryology reports, and what to ask both clinics.
What to record for each IVF cycle, so you can compare them side by side
A simple template for recording each IVF cycle, from protocol and monitoring to retrieval, embryology and transfer, so cycles can be compared side by side.