babybumpage
Mr. BUMPAGE
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Wow, I don't think I could rely on my doctor, only because she has been COMPLETELY WRONG! This is our 5th cycle with this doctor. The normal thinking is that you ovulate on the 1/2 way mark, so day 15 of a 30 day cycle. I'm a 32 day cycle, so we've been expecting day 16 O. Two months ago, my OPK said day 9. But the OBGYN said no way, wayyyy too soon. So last month, day 16, OPK +, so we do IUI, nothing. This month, I go in for the scan, and it's 16 mm on cycle day 5 (O at 20 mm, and grows 1-2 mm a day, so by day 7 it should have been ready to go). I ask her again, could we be O'ing early, and she says no way. Well, what do you know, I'm day 8 and I'm O'ing. So she was completely wrong. I just don't know that I could completely trust an OBGYN when my body is doing things totally different.
So the US health care system, in a word, is screwed up. We have insurance companies that sell you plans that are all different, each with their own policies, etc. No two cover the exact same thing, and I'm sure there are millions of plans. Doctors are all private, and you try and find one your insurance will pay. Insurance gets to pick the doctors they cover. If you don't have insurance, good luck. Luckily, husband just got a new job and insurance is pretty good. My particular insurance will cover most procedures and tests to determine why I'm infertile, but they will not help me get pregnant "artificially". So we pay IUI ourselves, IVF will be our own, etc. But they will pay 100% baby, so all pregnancy will be covered, and the child will be covered. This is all great, because the insurance is free through husbands work. Most people pay 500-1500.00 per month for insurance. We don't have 'waiting lists', but you do have to find a doctor who is taking patients, and who isn't booked 3 years out, which can be very difficult sometimes. Hope that helps a little.
I will let you know how everything goes tomorrow, it's 2am and I still can't sleep. Somehow I feel like the egg will live longer if I don't sleep. Yep, I know, I've lost it for sure.
So the US health care system, in a word, is screwed up. We have insurance companies that sell you plans that are all different, each with their own policies, etc. No two cover the exact same thing, and I'm sure there are millions of plans. Doctors are all private, and you try and find one your insurance will pay. Insurance gets to pick the doctors they cover. If you don't have insurance, good luck. Luckily, husband just got a new job and insurance is pretty good. My particular insurance will cover most procedures and tests to determine why I'm infertile, but they will not help me get pregnant "artificially". So we pay IUI ourselves, IVF will be our own, etc. But they will pay 100% baby, so all pregnancy will be covered, and the child will be covered. This is all great, because the insurance is free through husbands work. Most people pay 500-1500.00 per month for insurance. We don't have 'waiting lists', but you do have to find a doctor who is taking patients, and who isn't booked 3 years out, which can be very difficult sometimes. Hope that helps a little.
I will let you know how everything goes tomorrow, it's 2am and I still can't sleep. Somehow I feel like the egg will live longer if I don't sleep. Yep, I know, I've lost it for sure.