Fertility Checklists

What to gather, what to confirm with your medical scheme, and what to ask before your first consultation.

12 checklist items

• • Avoid repeating tests you have already paid for
• • Know what your scheme will pay before tests are booked

A structured way to establish exactly what your plan pays for before you commit to testing or treatment.

14 checklist items

• • Get answers in writing rather than verbally
• • Separate what is covered from what you will pay yourself

Practical preparation for stimulation, monitoring, egg retrieval and transfer, including scheme authorisation and time off work.

13 checklist items

• • Know what each stage involves
• • Have authorisation and medication in place before you start

Everything to arrange and take with you on a monitoring, egg collection or embryo transfer day, including transport, accompaniment and contact details.

30 checklist items

• • Arrive with the right documents, medicines and payment details
• • Have safe transport arranged, including after sedation

Confirming which of your medicines need refrigeration, storing them correctly, transporting them safely and knowing exactly what to do after a power interruption.

30 checklist items

• • Know which of your own medicines need cold storage and which do not
• • Transport medicines safely without risking freezing or overheating

A simple plan for the things that occasionally interrupt a treatment cycle — power, transport, weather, pharmacy delays, connectivity, illness and schedule changes.

28 checklist items

• • Keep timed medication and appointments on track
• • Know who to call, and have the number available offline

For patients travelling to a fertility unit in another town or province: coordinating local tests, accommodation, medication transport, leave and costs.

31 checklist items

• • Reduce the number of long journeys where the clinic allows it
• • Plan accommodation and leave around the key procedure days

Check every medicine, device and supply against your prescription when your order arrives from the pharmacy or courier.

24 checklist items

• • Catch a missing needle or diluent before the day you need it
• • Confirm the active ingredient, not only the brand

Everything to confirm and lay out before your first dose — instructions, medicine identity, device, timing, storage, supplies and after-hours contacts.

22 checklist items

• • Start trained rather than improvising
• • Confirm the exact device you were dispensed

A simple daily record of what your clinic prescribed, when you gave it, where, and how you felt.

14 checklist items

• • One reliable record instead of trying to remember
• • Spot a storage or supply problem early

The night-before and on-the-night checks for the most time-critical injection of the cycle.

17 checklist items

• • Confirm the exact time in writing
• • Have alarms and a second person in place

What to prepare before load shedding, what to do during an outage, and what to record so your pharmacist can advise properly.

18 checklist items

• • Know in advance which medicines are actually affected
• • Act in the right order during an outage

Everything to organise before travelling with fertility medicines, whether by road between provinces or on a domestic flight.

18 checklist items

• • Carry the right documents and supplies
• • Arrange cool transport for the whole journey

Keeping luteal support organised around transfer — what was prescribed, how much is left, refills, and your clinic's instructions about continuing.

13 checklist items

• • Avoid running out at the worst possible moment
• • Keep the schedule clear during a stressful fortnight

Keep track of the important stages of your frozen embryo transfer, from cycle preparation to pregnancy testing.

108 checklist items

• • Organise appointments, scans and medication timings in one place
• • Understand the stages of natural, modified natural and medicated cycles

An organisational checklist for two stimulations and two egg collections within one cycle, from first prescription to follow-up.

47 checklist items

• • Keep two stimulations and two collections clearly separated
• • Track monitoring appointments and trigger instructions