...katie...????????????????????

[Emerald87]

Damn, that sucks. Insurance companies are crap - they're all for the profit. At the same time you guys in the US would be screwed without them; I've heard some horror stories of some people with their bills exceeding $500,000.
I will be forking out $600 for my scan on Monday but that's entirely my choice. I could have settled with the morphology/anatomy scan I had done last week which was bulk billed (charged to the government) but I'd rather have these people do it, get a DVD and photos and see Kaida in awesome 3D goodness.
Apart from that I think that's the end of my costs.

 

[Emerald87]

Any news from Sarah? Has the updated FB?

 

[Emerald87]

OH! My inlaws asked what kind of "high-ticket" item they can buy us for the baby. I don't exactly know how high they mean but I've chosen a cot. I'll find a link.

 

[Emerald87]

Here it is; the Boori Newport in English Oak colour:
https://www.boori.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69&Itemid=64

 

[ashiozz]

That crib is beautiful!
WITHOUT insurance my bill would have been 57K so far.. so thank god for insurance.. the US needs to work on this whole insurance thang..

My MIL bought all of tylers furniture, which is amazing, so its awesome when in laws are that helpful We have good ones

My tyler FINALLy wants food!

 

[ashiozz]

Sarah didnt really update with much other than one pic of lizzie today but im sure no news is good news in this case Shes home so hopefully she'll log in and fills us in!!

 

[Emerald87]

Cool. In the pic is she still on the ventilator?

 

[ashiozz]

I cant tell because Lizzie's hand is in front of her face 0.o lol

 

[gigglebox]

des slept freat again! sadly, i did not. i was up about 20 minutes before he woke for his feed...and i never really got to sleep after that. i had about a 30 minute nap where i dreamed about my coworker telling me about anal sex...then i fell asleep at my desk. then i looked outside and saw my husband, who was driving a semi, got side swiped by another semi. hubs was ok, just pissed.

 

[Emerald87]

Wait - he was side swiped in real life or in your anal-related dream? If it was IRL, glad he's ok. And fuck that other driver.

I just watched a birth on RPA (a hospital show over here). They didn't really show much but after the discussion Colin and I had this arvo I'm fucking petrified. I'm scared beyond words. It's ages away, I know, but I'm scared. I can't wait to get to the stage that I want labour just to stop the pregnancy phase lol.

 

[Emerald87]

We were discussing water births (which I always thought was gross due to the blood and mucus) yet I was slightly considering one as I've heard they're great pain relief, but then Colin mentioned the poop and all I could picture was pooping and it floating around while I'm trying to give birth. I have issues with poop. I'm not having a water birth.

 

[gigglebox]

lol em; i pictured a little baby doing lines and had to laugh...then i realized i'm inappropriate also your crib it stylish! i love hard lines in decor so thus, i am loving your selection. do you have a room theme picked out?

 

[gigglebox]

i was terrified of birth, and didn't want to do it, probably up until 35 weeks. you'll get there! or maybe you won't. but you still have to do the birth thing with a water birth, someone will remove said poo when/if it happens. unless you have the shits...then i don't know.

oh, the hubs thing was part of the dream. but still, fuck that driver! he sped off!

 

[Emerald87]

lol em; i pictured a little baby doing lines and had to laugh...then i realized i'm inappropriate also your crib it stylish! i love hard lines in decor so thus, i am loving your selection. do you have a room theme picked out?

So. Many. Themes. Can't pick one, so I'm styling with modern decor and theme-ing around it once we decide. Dark colours will match all our theme ideas. Exactly what you said, hard lines. A friend is making the change table to my specific requirements (that's his baby gift to me, yes me, he doesn't like colin because frankly he's madly in love with me and is pissed colin has me lol) so it'll match the cot and it's based on like 15 different change tables I like haha. Once they're taken care of the expensive crap is done hopefully.

 

[Emerald87]

Laura, you dont think I'll make 35 weeks?

 

[gigglebox]

no! i mean you'll get there, "there" being mentally ready for labor

ETA: actually i'm guessing you'll go over, as we all have, and probably be quite frustrated at the end, as we alll were lol

 

[gigglebox]

that's so freaking cool you are going to have custom furniture!

we too got lucky with that stuff. my parents got our stroller, in laws got our dresser/changing table, nina got our crib, my moms friends pitched in to get us our baby monitor, a friend gave me a ton of clothes... other than diapers and formula, i think we spent about $100 on things for him lol

 

[Emerald87]

Colin's wiring up an old laptop with web cam etc. for our monitor so we have video and audio access 24/7 via our other computers, phones, laptops, tablets etc. he'll probably make a program that acts like a Standard monitor too I.e. switch everything to baby when it registers a cry.

 

[gigglebox]

ahhhh the perks of a talented husband! that is so cool

 

[ashiozz]

Colin's wiring up an old laptop with web cam etc. for our monitor so we have video and audio access 24/7 via our other computers, phones, laptops, tablets etc. he'll probably make a program that acts like a Standard monitor too I.e. switch everything to baby when it registers a cry.

I asked mitch to do this (he is a software engineer, but has worked in IT for the past 7 years.. He can do it all)

... But he brought up the fact, that he does not want our son's webcam to be done via the internet for two reasons... Someone could hack, and also, What if the internet goes out? then you lose your audio and video.. So instead we have a regular video monitor with a portable parent device ... my baby security cam is on his wall

If he can get it to work wit no outages, thats a great idea... but that's why Mitch refused to do it that way.