I'm back and I hope to post regularly again. I won't even attempt everyday but I'm shooting for 3 times a week.
Unfortunately, I'm not back as a TTC'er just yet. I may have mentioned on this blog before, my somewhat strong feeling about the ever-benevolent industry known as health insurance. Right. Well, it strikes again. You see, we are both self-employed and currently have insurance continued through COBRA from my husbands last job. That coverage will end in May so last month I began the rewarding and exciting process of securing private insurance for us. G-'s was easy. The children's hospital here offers a great plan that I wish I'd signed him up for ages ago. We say about $200 for him alone making that switch.
But for us, it another matter entirely. I could get us great coverage for the reasonable price of about $800 per month *splutter, cough* but that would specifically exclude any maternity coverage. If I want maternity coverage I can get a crappy policy for about the same cost, or a decent but not great policy for over $1000 per month.
Or S- and I could form a "business," either by his existing business hiring me, or by starting a new one all together. There are all kinds of problems with both scenarios but either would get us good coverage with maternity for $800 - $900 per month.
The last option is to simply go without maternity coverage. My midwife actually recommends this. She says the cost of prenatal care and a normal home-birth is much lass than what we would pay for a year or two of maternity coverage. But I just don't feel comfortable with that. What if I need to transfer to the hospital? What if something goes wrong? No coverage would mean we would be out of our house for sure. I just don't think I can take that risk. Plus I feel like getting the coverage will help ensure I really don't need it, right? It's the old umbrella adage... So until all that is worked out, I'm back on BCP's.
In other news, I'm running a marathon in just under two weeks. I'm dedicating it to my might-have-been baby. I would have been 37w6d on race day. I'm considering running with a pacing group that will have a 4:15 finish time. I'm going to talk to the pace setter at the expo the day before the race and see if I think it would be good for me.
Finally, G- is nearly potty trained. He decided he did not want to wear diapers anymore and after a few days of frequent accidents, he has now gone over a week with just one. We are cheating a bit though. Most of the time he poops in his diaper before we put on underwear in the morning. He's really only pooped on the potty 2 times that I know of. But I think it will happen soon. Once he does it a few times in a row I think it will click. On the bright side, He wore "just underwear" for all his naps last week and stayed dry, and this morning his pull-up was still dry from all night. My baby is getting so big! No if only he would just sleep all nigh. :)
Oh and as you probably know, Prop 2 did pass. By an overwhelming 74%. Ugh, what an ugly day that was. I just don't understand it. No one I know voted for it, not even my Republican Dad or Sister. Even they thought it was a horribly sad day. What is wrong with people?
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