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I'm so frustrated! (sorry it's a bit long)
This is a two fold frustration post, sorry!
1. I'm frustrated with our insurance company because they can't seem to get into motion about how much they are going to cover for us to get tested for the CF gene. We have to be tested to make sure we aren't both carriers before we even begin to discuss any options of having another child biologically. We have been back and forth with them since November when we found out Aubrey was a carrier. I don't care how much we have to pay, I just need to know, so I wish they'd stop giving us the runaround and just give us a number.
If we have another child it won't be for another 3 years or so but the planner in me wants to go ahead and get this testing over with so just in case we change our mind and decide on earlier we can.
2. My second frustration is purely my fault. Still having trouble with Aubrey playing on the floor. She'll sit and play on the floor all day long, but you lay her on her tummy to play she screams her little head off! And this is just on the floor...she doesn't do this in her crib at all. I am kicking myself for not getting her to play more on the floor when she was younger...I'd just feel so sorry for her laying there crying that I'd pick her up and we'd play elsewhere. Now I am paying for it that at 7 months she still screams about it!
I have tried distracting her and it works for a second. I'll get down there with her, put interesting toys down there to play with and I try singing to her which is usually a calming device. But she is trying to scoot and she just gets mad because the quilt gets balled up around her knees. But if we put her directly on the wood floor she screams louder!
I know she is still a bit young for crawling, but I am afraid that this is going to hamper her when that time comes. Please tell me she'll get better as long as I keep doing this. I feel so bad making her scream and cry but I know she needs to learn to play on the floor. This is so frustrating because I feel like I have caused this.
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Re: I'm so frustrated! (sorry it's a bit long)
I don't have any advice, just wanted to say that I'm sorry you're feeling like that about the floor situation. I'd venture to say that all will eventually be well. Once she's really starting to move around and pull up on things, she won't care what the surface is. Mitchell didn't like the wood in our kitchen at first, everytime he got to it he would try to get on his hands and feet (rather than knees). He eventually got used to it.
I had never put him down on the wood floor to play. His only contact with it had been just his feet when in the jumperoo.
Don't fret, things will get better!
I don't know if you remember, but my daughter is a CF carrier. My insurance covered my CF testing. We assumed that my husband was the carrrier because we found out that he had a cousin with CF and I have no family history. I got tested and when it was negative we didn't even get my husband tested. Anyways, I think I remember that the cash price of CF testing wasn't very expensive ( I could be wrong). Maybe get one of you tested and if it's negative then there's no need to have the other one tested.
Sorry the insurance is giving you the run around. They suck. Hopefully it will be resolved soon.
As for the floor thing, I am not sure what you should do other than what you are already doing. I think once she becomes more mobile it won't be an issue. I know it's tough to watch them cry though.
TTC #2 since 4/09
Unexplained Secondary IF
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4 failed rounds of clomid ~ 4 failed IUIs ~ 1 m/c
2/3/11: IUI #5 - Femara/Follistim/Ovidrel/Crinone = BFP (2/14)!!!
Beta #1 (12dpiui): 53 Beta #2 (14dpiui): 203 Beta #3 (20dpiui): 3932 Beta #4 (28dpiui): 60,775
1st U/S (3/3): 2 sacs & yolks 2nd U/S (3/8) 2 heartbeats-TWINS!
Baby A:6w6d HR 131 Baby B:6w4d HR 124
TWINS!! EDD 10/25/2011
I've been battling BCBS over a stupid breastpump for seven months so I'm no help there.
As for the tummy time...you said she's trying to scoot...could the crying be frustration over not yet being mobile? I know that once Sarah got the hang of crawling, we've had considerably less whiney time. Though now that she's trying to pull up, she's frustrated over that. I help if she gets really upset, otherwise, I try to let her work it out.
Our plan right now is to get me tested first. If I am not the carrier then we aren't going to get Wes tested..but if I am we are still going to get him tested in case we are both carriers.
The test straight out is 1500. Our insurance is going to cover it we just don't know how much...they may do 100% but they may only do 80%...I just wish they'd let us know so we could go ahead and do it you know?