Nothing new
11 weeks. feeling better. not great, but better. ben cleaned the toilet with my toothbrush the other day. yup, nothing's changed there.
i'm thinking of posting a belly shot soon. i dunno. it's still mostly bloat.
we're relisting our house with a new agent. i guess that's new. but it still hasn't sold, so that's old. we've decided to take a loss just to get rid of it. it's sucking a lot of money per month, money that we now desperately need to afford our health insurance. it's wonderfully cheap for stephen and insanely expensive for me and ben. as in, ben costs almost six times as much as stephen does and i cost more than seven times as much! shit. so obviously, i need the insurance because of the pregnancy, but we've decided not to cover ben. i want to crawl under a rock and die for letting finances get in the way of keeping my child safe, but i'm trying to remind myself that it's not like i'd just sit there and watch him bleed to death because we don't have insurance for him. if something happens, you get help first, deal with paying for it later. so what we have here is an irresponsible financial decision, not an irresponsible parenting decision.
we did think about not covering me and just paying the midwife out of pocket, but if i needed a c section or was hemmorhaging or anything else that required a transfer, we'd really regret not having insurance.
when the new baby comes, we'll add it to the insurance if there's a problem, but if it's a normal home birth, no complications, then i guess we won't. i'm pretty sure the midwife includes a few well baby visits in her birthing fee.
so. money is tight again, but hopefully just for a little while longer. if we could ever get out of that damn house, we could afford everything i've mentioned here and more.
dude, it's really late. why am i still up?
PS: sushi is awesome. more to come on that next time.
i'm thinking of posting a belly shot soon. i dunno. it's still mostly bloat.
we're relisting our house with a new agent. i guess that's new. but it still hasn't sold, so that's old. we've decided to take a loss just to get rid of it. it's sucking a lot of money per month, money that we now desperately need to afford our health insurance. it's wonderfully cheap for stephen and insanely expensive for me and ben. as in, ben costs almost six times as much as stephen does and i cost more than seven times as much! shit. so obviously, i need the insurance because of the pregnancy, but we've decided not to cover ben. i want to crawl under a rock and die for letting finances get in the way of keeping my child safe, but i'm trying to remind myself that it's not like i'd just sit there and watch him bleed to death because we don't have insurance for him. if something happens, you get help first, deal with paying for it later. so what we have here is an irresponsible financial decision, not an irresponsible parenting decision.
we did think about not covering me and just paying the midwife out of pocket, but if i needed a c section or was hemmorhaging or anything else that required a transfer, we'd really regret not having insurance.
when the new baby comes, we'll add it to the insurance if there's a problem, but if it's a normal home birth, no complications, then i guess we won't. i'm pretty sure the midwife includes a few well baby visits in her birthing fee.
so. money is tight again, but hopefully just for a little while longer. if we could ever get out of that damn house, we could afford everything i've mentioned here and more.
dude, it's really late. why am i still up?
PS: sushi is awesome. more to come on that next time.