@tishb Yea, that's what United told me..but they said I can't even order until January 21st. So I guess it would ship January 22nd since I'm due February 22nd
@srscott3 I have BCBS. Other than what I said above about the charges and what not I have not had any issue. The timing is based on the company you choose to use for the pump. Insurance doesn't seem to be a factor in how early you can get it.
Edited to add that I have already physically received my pump from Aeroflow with my BCBS insurance.
There were 3 basic pumps for me to choose from @leslie1331. A Medela double electric, Ameda double electric, or Ameda manual. And by basic, I mean basic. It doesn't even come in the tote.
@jstringfellow19 I have BCBS and was told 30 days. Their customer service is really helpful so I'm hoping they can help me out with getting it earlier so I can be sure to have it when the baby comes.
My insurance uses Medela pumps, and you can submit an RX once you hit 28 weeks and the pump comes within 10 business days. They offer the pump in style model. My OB uses another company also but I told them I would rather go through my insurance...otherwise I would have to wait until I give birth and they bring your pump to you in the hospital.
@PerraSucia we are in sort of the same boat but with just one kid - so ours will be about $1600 a month. Not sure how you do it with two!! We are lucky because my firm has a childcare center which is great care - but is $$$ even after the subsidized rates.
and availability. we are going to be spending 2200-2300 a month on childcare and hopefully we can get in somewhere
Good lord, I don't look forward to that... I mean, it's bad enough that it'll be $1100 for one kid for us (and that's WITH an employee discount), but I don't know how we would handle two at that rate. Honestly, I think I may have to be a SAHM after our second kid, otherwise I would literally be spending all of my take-home pay on childcare.
My eyeballs are popping out of my head at those numbers... that is quite actually double what I bring home in a month.
And note to self: the metal pan full of chicken that you took out of the 400° oven exactly seven seconds ago is not yet cool enough to pick up bare-handed. Doh!
@homemake DS's preschool is 2.5 and up so they will have to go two seperate places. Hopefully we find something close to the other one. For an extra 100 bux we could just get an in home nanny for both of them but I think taking DS1 out of preschool would be detrimental to him.
@homemake DS's preschool is 2.5 and up so they will have to go two seperate places. Hopefully we find something close to the other one. For an extra 100 bux we could just get an in home nanny for both of them but I think taking DS1 out of preschool would be detrimental to him.
@tishb lame! I was told the month waiting period and that was it, I was hoping for a really good one!
There was an option for one with all the accessories for an extra $95 or so, but someone gave me a pump, so I'm using my new pump and putting it in the tote from the hand-me-down pump
@homemake DS's preschool is 2.5 and up so they will have to go two seperate places. Hopefully we find something close to the other one. For an extra 100 bux we could just get an in home nanny for both of them but I think taking DS1 out of preschool would be detrimental to him.
That's tough. I hope you can find something good!
We are in the same situation. DS goes to a preschool for 2 and up so baby has to go somewhere different. There are not that many reputable daycares that accept infants in my area that are close to DS preschool. I found the one I wanted and I called them over a month ago and she couldn't guarantee that I could even get the baby in by June. I'm taking 12weeks off and my MIL will watch her for a little bit, but I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't get her in this daycare.
I'm worried about daycare, too. We've accepted offers of help from both Grandmas, which is so awesome, but I'm worried about how it will go with my MIL. She's excited to do it (it was her idea), and we will be paying her, but she's out of work right now with a knee problem, and if she's not able to do it after all we'll be SOL to get into anything in our area at this point. My mom would probably take some extra days until we got off a wait list but the whole thing is just nervewracking. GL to all of you looking for centers or in-homes. Daycare in our country is such a mess.
I had to get on the daycare waiting list when I was only 12 weeks along, and we got the last spot available until July or later. Insane! We are keeping that spot for now but trying to explore potential in-home options that would be more affordable because I'm still having a hard time stomaching the $1250 per month cost. Good luck to all of you still looking or having to find two separate centers!
I laughed out loud when one of the sites I looked at (maybe this one) said on the weekly update to start looking for childcare. We put our deposit down months ago... I told my husband I was just going to quit working because I literally couldnt find ANYONE. One woman told me she has 3 moms waiting for her to tell them they could start TTC. WTH?????? Luckily the provider we found is incredible, but... she cant take baby until August 29th. My moms neighbor watches her granddaughter and she was kind enough to agree to watch our baby for 4 months... Now I am just stressed that if she decides its too much I will be SOL.
I thought I had come to terms with staying home, and the next day I almost started crying at work because I love my job too much to quit.
My BF: My coworkers 90+ year old neighbor backed into my car 6 weeks ago while he and I were at an event. His insurance has been awful to deal with... I have spent so much time trying to get things straightened out. I dropped my car off yesterday for repairs and now it is sitting at the shop where they won't work on it because they quoted me $2100 to fix it and the insurance company decided to issue me a check for $1440 and won't pay a penny more "unless I go to their shop". Totally illegal to force me to go to their shop. Also, their two shops in the area quoted me $2600 at one and $3100 at the other!!!!!!!!! On top of that, on Thursday my cell phone crashed (I am holding out on replacing it for another week or two- theres GOTTA be a Christmas deal??? My hubby didn't want to replace his yet or we would have gotten new phones on Black Friday...) and shortly after our entire computer and phone system went down at work. I am currently 2 full days behind, won't be in the office tomorrow because I will be at events, and Friday we have a huge event at work.... All day I have contemplated sitting under my desk to cry. I have reporting that has to be done for Federal funding no later than Friday afternoon, and I honestly don't know how I can finish it.... Its a solid day of work and I havent started.
For some reason, I am never on TB on Mondays to complain... always Tuesdays... lol
I know it's Thursday, but here goes my bf for the week. DH has been planning on taking 2 weeks off work to help me after my c-section. He has told his work about it multiple times and how he was saving up his pto time to do it. Well he reminded his boss today and she informed him he doesn't qualify for FMLA because they have less than 50 employees and she highly doubts he could be off for 2 while weeks, even with pto time and why can't we schedule my c-section on a Friday so he has the weekend to help me and maybe take 1 or 2 days off the following week then get back to work. She also said "it's not like she's an invalid, surely she can manage on her own." I could if it was just taking care of the baby. But we do have 2 other kids that will need to get out to school and back and a 3 story house. You would think an office full of women would understand.
@tishb Wow she sounds like a bish!! It is his PTO time and he should be able to do with it as he pleases. I'm sure other employees there take 1-2 weeks off at a time for normal vacations!
@tishb that is ridiculous! Is there a higher up he can take this to?
SITB Yeah there is, and he most definitely will be speaking with her tomorrow. His immediate supervisor is not a nice lady. No kids, no husband, her life revolves around work and thinks everyone else's should too.
It amazes me that our society still places so little value on the father's part in baby's early life. My company offers 2 weeks paid paternity. DH's offers zero. In addition to a week of vacation, we are considering him using some unpaid FMLA to fill in as necessary until we can get a daycare spot (our first choice doesn't have space until August, but we may have found another place that can get us in before that). He went to his HR department and was told that no man has ever actually asked to use FMLA for time with their babies... I don't get it.
It amazes me that our society still places so little value on the father's part in baby's early life. My company offers 2 weeks paid paternity. DH's offers zero. In addition to a week of vacation, we are considering him using some unpaid FMLA to fill in as necessary until we can get a daycare spot (our first choice doesn't have space until August, but we may have found another place that can get us in before that). He went to his HR department and was told that no man has ever actually asked to use FMLA for time with their babies... I don't get it.
@tishb that was an incredibly rude thing to say about someone!! It really irks me when people say inappropriate things that really isn't any of their business. That's completely unprofessional in my opinion. It's as simple as yes or no, talking about you being capable or not is none of her concern. That whole conversation would have angered me. Good grief!! Down to rescheduling your c/s that's nuts!! I hope they work something out so he can there to help while you recover
I don't get it either. My company offers 3 weeks paid bonding time for dads and moms. Moms get maternity leave of 12 weeks before the bonding kicks in, so we get 15 weeks paid off and after that we can opt for some additional unpaid time. At least the dads get 3 weeks paid. My state recognizes child bonding time, but most companies still make the dad use unpaid FMLA as their bonding time.
@tishb that was an incredibly rude thing to say about someone!! It really irks me when people say inappropriate things that really isn't any of their business. That's completely unprofessional in my opinion. It's as simple as yes or no, talking about you being capable or not is none of her concern. That whole conversation would have angered me. Good grief!! Down to rescheduling your c/s that's nuts!! I hope they work something out so he can there to help while you recover
@kswiger06 she's lucky DH is the nice one! I would have torn her apart for crap like that!
@tishb that was an incredibly rude thing to say about someone!! It really irks me when people say inappropriate things that really isn't any of their business. That's completely unprofessional in my opinion. It's as simple as yes or no, talking about you being capable or not is none of her concern. That whole conversation would have angered me. Good grief!! Down to rescheduling your c/s that's nuts!! I hope they work something out so he can there to help while you recover
@kswiger06 she's lucky DH is the nice one! I would have torn her apart for crap like that!
We are the opposite, my husband might have gotten fired if someone talked to him like that lol. And I would have just gone home and cried about it.
@tishb Wow, she clearly does not comprehend what a c-section recovery looks like. All her ignorance aside, I still don't see how she can reject a reasonable, well in advance time off request. He definitely needs to speak to someone above her! It is just sad how little some people value dad's bonding time with baby and mom.
Re: Monday B*fest, 12/5
Edited to add that I have already physically received my pump from Aeroflow with my BCBS insurance.
J/K I don't like other people's kids much...
And note to self: the metal pan full of chicken that you took out of the 400° oven exactly seven seconds ago is not yet cool enough to pick up bare-handed. Doh!
I thought I had come to terms with staying home, and the next day I almost started crying at work because I love my job too much to quit.
My BF: My coworkers 90+ year old neighbor backed into my car 6 weeks ago while he and I were at an event. His insurance has been awful to deal with... I have spent so much time trying to get things straightened out. I dropped my car off yesterday for repairs and now it is sitting at the shop where they won't work on it because they quoted me $2100 to fix it and the insurance company decided to issue me a check for $1440 and won't pay a penny more "unless I go to their shop". Totally illegal to force me to go to their shop. Also, their two shops in the area quoted me $2600 at one and $3100 at the other!!!!!!!!! On top of that, on Thursday my cell phone crashed (I am holding out on replacing it for another week or two- theres GOTTA be a Christmas deal??? My hubby didn't want to replace his yet or we would have gotten new phones on Black Friday...) and shortly after our entire computer and phone system went down at work. I am currently 2 full days behind, won't be in the office tomorrow because I will be at events, and Friday we have a huge event at work.... All day I have contemplated sitting under my desk to cry. I have reporting that has to be done for Federal funding no later than Friday afternoon, and I honestly don't know how I can finish it.... Its a solid day of work and I havent started.
For some reason, I am never on TB on Mondays to complain... always Tuesdays... lol
You would think an office full of women would understand.