More info about Mini-IVF

So I have an appointment on August 8, with the other IVF center. I'm going to go ahead and have the sono-hys tomorrow. It's diagnostics at this point still, so why not go ahead I figure. Doing a little research today, there are not that many IVF centers/doctors that offer mini-IVF. There only seems to be 1 in this area so far. The procedure itself is not a new concept, just new it seems to the US. I really wonder why more doctors aren't offering it?? From what I've read, the chances of making it to a live birth are almost the same. Honestly, it's sounding better and better.

Little more info:

"When patients contemplate IVF, their first reaction is often the fear of daily injections of hormones for months, the incredibly high cost of the drugs, the risk of multiple pregnancy and consequent prematurity, side effects related to high levels of estrogen resulting from large numbers of eggs, hyperstimulation syndrome, and the prospect of painful daily progesterone injections for a full ten weeks even after the IVF procedure. Mini-IVF is a very unique approach developed by our colleagues in Japan to circumvent these problems and to simplify IVF for patients, reducing the cost while maintaining comparable success rates.

Mini-IVF is designed to recruit only a few (but high quality) eggs, thus avoiding the risks of hyperstimulation, reducing the cost of drugs from an average of $4,000 to closer to $400, reducing the number of injections, and completely avoiding the painful progesterone injections. This approach is not just a simple-minded reduction in hormonal stimulation. It is an ingeniously conceived and completely different approach to IVF, that saves the patient much of the complexity and cost associated with more conventional IVF protocols. Here is how it works."