Pregnant!

[aimeemarie]

Wow, anyone from this thread still around???

I am the OP. I just was doing some old searching and found this.

I will happily report that Nov 26, 2005 we had a healthy baby girl named Alexandra Marie. Alex is now 16 months old, I have been staying home since finishing college in May of 06. I never took any time off of school. We love love love our daughter and couldn't have asked for more. Life is a dream! We were married May 27, 2005 shortly after finding out we were pregnant and are TTC baby #2.

 

[purpleunicorn_Andi]

Is that for real?

In Australia, there are 2 main ways you can have a baby through the hospital system.

You can have a baby privately or public. In the public system you can see midwives for free, also when you have your baby, the hospital stay is free and as far as I know vaginal delivery and c-sections are FREE.

It is only if you have private insurance (like we do) and have an obstetrician of your choice (which we do) that you have to pay anything.

I want to move to australia!!!! so far I have paid my dr over $600 (and my insurance pays 80%) plus I still have the hospital, the dr is wanting to induce. and I have the hospital bill from a couple weeks ago when I was in over night for observation... got the bill for that... my portion is like 350... with my oldest the bills were so high that medicaid covered what my insurance did not

 

[gracepaints]

Wow, anyone from this thread still around???

I am the OP. I just was doing some old searching and found this.

I will happily report that Nov 26, 2005 we had a healthy baby girl named Alexandra Marie. Alex is now 16 months old, I have been staying home since finishing college in May of 06. I never took any time off of school. We love love love our daughter and couldn't have asked for more. Life is a dream! We were married May 27, 2005 shortly after finding out we were pregnant and are TTC baby #2.

Aimee - this is wonderful news! Thanks so much for updating us. I'm glad that you and your baby and your husband have made a family together. Many blessings to you!

 

[jessesgirl]

I thought you didn't bleed when you were pregnant??

I bled really lightly for my first period after I got pregnant.

 

[PegasusOnFire]

Wow, anyone from this thread still around???

I am the OP. I just was doing some old searching and found this.

I will happily report that Nov 26, 2005 we had a healthy baby girl named Alexandra Marie. Alex is now 16 months old, I have been staying home since finishing college in May of 06. I never took any time off of school. We love love love our daughter and couldn't have asked for more. Life is a dream! We were married May 27, 2005 shortly after finding out we were pregnant and are TTC baby #2.

Congrats Aimee, and I hope you get preggers quickly. I got pregnant with this baby when my daughter was 17 months old.

 

[Just4Jesus]

Suprise, Suprise. My boyfriend and I are pregnant. Not expected, not ready, but not unwanted. I am 21, he is 22. I am a junior in college. He is employed full time by my aunt and uncle and makes $33K a year. Our problem? He has no insurance, once we are married (probably in June) I will have no insurance. Besides, my parent's insurance I am on does not cover pregnancy. We do not qualify for medicare. The income line is $28 or 29K for medicare. I have had cramping and bleeding this past week or two when I was supposed to have a period and I decided we should go get some tests. Because we are not ready for this, we were really shook up and still kind of care, just don't know how we are going to afford this baby. I'm not sure how far along I am yet. Maybe a couple of months. Anyways, Hi! (Any ideas for insurance would be appreciated!)

Wow, pretty neat you found this after all that time! Cool!

 

[aimeemarie]

Hehe updating again. I am sitting at the computer holding our son, Ryan who is 3 months old already!!!! It is neat to read this thread...I can't imagine our life without our children!

 

[shainamsu]

again, not sure if you're in the US or not, but i know that here, you can usually work out payment plans with a doctor if you don't have insurance.

with my daughter, we hadn't been married long, had insurance on my husband, but not me. so, we called the doctor's office and she agreed to allow us to pay her $300/mo until the end of the pregnancy. after that, they would just bill us whatever was left. we did that for a few months, but then my husband got a new job with insurance that covered me at 4 months pregnant (God answers prayers, you guys!!).
anyhoo, that's one thing to consider.

 

[-~Truth_N_Trust~-]

wow aimeemarie, congrats on your babies!

Oh and I'm in australia, I didn't pay a cent to have both my babies in hospital...

 

[heart of peace]

Wow, this was a fun thread to read...lol Loved the updates!! It is like finding an old journal Congratulations on your family. What ended up happening with your hospital bills?

 

[Hadassah]

Wow! Congrats on both of your little ones! I'm glad it worked out for you

 

[Redstiletto]

Have you tried looking up your states government assisted insurance? It's not medicare, but its for families that do not/can not afford health insurance.