I am a patient of Dr. Thandie Chiware and would highly recommend her to anyone in search of a reproductive endocrinologist. I found Dr. Chiware to be the perfect combination of both realist and optimist, and appreciate her sensitive yet honest approach. When undergoing IVF you as a patient quickly become a “quasi expert” in your mind. You read everything possible, study up on the process, research the drugs/injectables, join IVF groups, pose questions to other IVF patients, follow leading experts in the field on social media. Your life becomes a hotbed of IVF research and conversations, and then the planning begins. Now what’s that old adage about making plans…”we make plans and God laughs”, well God must have had the heartiest of belly laughs with me, as nothing turned out as I anticipated, and we had to pivot and quickly. My saving grace, my sanity in the midst of the insanity was one Dr. Thandie Chiware. She is the consummate professional, yet she still feels warm and approachable. I attribute much of my success directly to her. As a African American woman in a same sex marriage, it was important to my wife and I to have a IVF provider and IVF facility that saw us, and even better reflects us, and that is what we found with Dr. Chiware at Genesis. Representation is so important, particularly in reproductive medicine, Dr. Chiware’s mere presence is significant, important and reassuring.
Just to drive the point all the way home allow me to share my stats. I was 44 years of age when I got pregnant via IVF, with my first and only child using my own egg. I was 45 when I gave birth to a healthy happy baby boy. None of this would have been possible without the assistance of Dr. Chiware.