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WIC
How many ladies use this amazing tool? I have an appt. Tuesday to get all paperwork together and get started on it but I was just wondering how many ladies are on it? Do you ever feel like some people look down on you because you're enrolled? I'm sorry, but I'll take saving $80 a grocery trip anyday! Even with the smug looks
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Re: WIC
Not true. If you're going to take things you don't need, just own it.
9/26/10 stopped BCP and started TTC.
9/2011 referred to RE. All blood work normal and DH's SA=normal results
11/2011 HSG=both tubes clear
One natural (monitored) cycle of Clomid, 50mg 2/2012= BFN
Getting ready for first IUI, 3/2012 received orders to Japan! (postponed IUI)
5/2012 Moved to Japan, fought Tricare for months over referral (no fertility treatment on our military base) for Japanese RE out in town!
8/2012 Started seeing new RE
9/2012, post coital test= hostile cervical fluid, (finally) moving on with first IUI!
9/29/2012 IUI #1+trigger= BFN
10/27/2012 IUI #2+100mg Clomid CD5-9+trigger= BFN
11/28/2012 IUI #3+100mg Clomid CD5-9+trigger= BFN
12/28/2012 IUI#4+100mg Clomid CD5-9+trigger=BFN
2/1/2013 IUI#5+injectables+trigger=BFN
3/2013 IUI#6+injectables+trigger=???
Exactly. When my H is working 80+ hours a week because of some stupid exercise and he has nothing to show for it (like overtime or special duty pay) then suddenly I don't feel so weird about using WIC.
we qualify and from what i hear if my husbands command found out we werent on it they'd "make us" get on it. and if you go to the hospital on post for ob stuff they make you get on it if your husband is under e5.
ill use it if breastfeeding doesnt work out, because formula is expensive. but other than that? not gonna use it.
Haha you sound exactly like me. Except we're a family of 3. I went to Wal-Mart today and the cashier saw my military id in my Coach wallet while I was using WIC for formula and looked at me like I was doing something illegal.
Yeah, I hate when people judge, they don't know us or our stories. Luckily I'm in a huge military town so I don't recieve any looks, or if I do....I haven't noticed them.
this. I don't feel right about it, especially considering dh gets extra money each month specifically for food and bah and we don't have car payments or anything. but to each their own. if lo went on formula we probably would.
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Haha I think if our AF base ever got shut down this town would turn into a ghost town. Luckily 3rd Army is coming in so now more military people
) The problem with being here is that there are so many people that abuse the system I can kind of see why I get weird looks, but then most civilians think that military families have so much we don't need any help.
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BIG FAT DITTO!
Well, our Air Force base is "closing" due to BRAC, it's gonna be an Army Air Field, but we've got the 82nd so no worries there. Now if the Army left, this town would be a ghost town as well. I don't get why most civilans think that way, they should live in our shoes for a bit.
Keep in mind that is not always an indicator of wealth but more often of debt.
No, nobody is forcing us to have babies, but many civilians don't understand military life. Most civilians don't have a clue what it's like to go through an 18 month deployment. They don't know what it's like to know that their husband is risking his life to save another soldiers. They don't have to think of what they'll tell their children if their daddy doesn't come back. Yes, we choose this life. And I absolutely love it. And yes we can live on one income and yes, we can afford our daughter. I am not ashamed of getting WIC for formula. Yes, I can afford it, but we were approved for WIC and I'm going to use it. We won't be eligible long, but while we are I am going to use it.
Yea, what she said.
I don't have a victim mentality. Civilans think we have it easy, but it's not always so easy. And vice versa. I know it goes both ways. I chose to marry into the military and all the hardships that come with it and I'm very proud of my husband and his willingness to serve our country. We're fine on one income...I'm all about cutting back, clipping coupons, finding deals, talking with the phone and cable company every year to get a lower price. And no one's making me have babies. But just because we chose to be a one income family so I can be a SAHM, I'm not about to let anyone tell me I shouldn't use a service that we're eligable for! Who are you to determine who has a valid "need" for this service? I've worked for 14 years, paid my taxes and give back to the community. I have a right to use a service that my taxes went towards.
You do realize that $30 dollars comes from somewhere (meaning it's other people's money taken for taxes and then redistributed).
I don't understand the military and their sense of entitlement to wic. First of all, the hospital and doctors all push wic like we should all BE on it. Like it's just as common as BAS, and Bah. This is part of the problem.
WIC is government assistance. Technically most of us DO NOT qualify for this program. We only qualify because they take out our bah and bas. You DO realize those are part of our pay right? You cannot claim victim because you only make $1500 a month. Well, technically you make $2500 a month after bas and bah, so if you were in the civilian world you would not qualify.
This is NOT a savings program. This is to help people who CANNOT afford milk and cheese and formula for their baby. I went on WIC last year when I lost my job and could not afford formula for my son and could not breastfed due to him being a preemie. I thanked GOD for wic as we deplete our savings pretty quickly due to my bedrest and my son being in the nicu. But the point is we HAD savings to live on for emergencies like that. I wish we would have had more so I never had to use it, but was grateful for the program while I needed it.
It is NOT free money. It is not a savings plan so that you can go out to resturants, and enjoy extra things. I saw so many of my friends on wic, but then went away every weekend, had two car payments, boat and trailer payments. This is not what wic is for people.
It really makes me sick that you all think you deserve it. If you are SAHM by CHOICE and on wic then you are abusing the reason it is in place. Get off you ass and go to work to pay for your food.
I really don`t care where the money comes from, like one comment said before, you got to do what you got to do for your Family. And since our Man get sh## for a payraise in Jan. I could even care less.
WHATEVER....^^^^^if you don`t want to use it nobody is making you, but I think it is a great program and I will use it as long I can. I think thats what we deserve after 5 DEPLOYMENTS and 12 years in the Army.
Exactly.
I am not a SAHM by choice. I've got a college degree and I am looking for a job. It's not exactly easy in this economy or in this town that I live in. And so guess what. Until I get a job and we no longer qualify I am going to continue to use WIC for formula.
TWELVE years in the Army and FIVE deployments and you still need government assistance?
Fiscal Management classes. Take one. They're FREE.
Yeah, you signed up for the job sweetie. Don't Biiitch about it. Military life sucks, but it doesn't qualify to use up the resources our economy has. You are NOT gauranteed to see a pay raise every january. Do you think civilians see a pay raise every january? Get over your self deserving attitude that the world owes you just because you dh has been deployed.