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UO 8/1

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BFP 6/3/19 EDD 2/14/20 BFP 4/15/21 EDD 12/20/21
Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
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  • ibabyloveb87ibabyloveb87 member
    I do not like avocados. 
    Me:33
    DH: 34
    Married: May 2011
    TTC #1: May 2015
    DS: 10/20/2016
    TTC #2: June 2019
    #2 EDD: 2/20/2020
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  • DDRRT1982DDRRT1982 member
    I am allergic to avocados, so it extra sucks because I love guacamole.  I have terrible stomach pain and feel like I am going to throw up.   Interesting enough, I have eaten it at Uncle Julio’s and didn’t get sick.  


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  • DDRRT1982DDRRT1982 member
    My UO is I don’t think America is ready for socialized healthcare.  Don’t get me wrong, I completely support it and would love it, but most Americans are not well educated regarding what it is, it’s benefits, and how it wouldn’t make us a socialist country.  This UO comes off of a really dumb conversation that my husband and I had last night.  Apparently, Trump signed something that would allow for Americans to purchase cheaper medicine from Canada and I took that opportunity to highlight how it’s ironic we have to buy cheaper meds from countries that have socialized medicine, but we are so scared to pursue a similar opportunity for Americans.  He of course started the fear mongering nonsense and basically told me if we lived in Canada that I wouldn’t get a cerclage even though I’ve had four others and a premature birth.  This is a college educated man, with the ability to reason and do research, but him and many others still recite the same few comments about lack of choice, wouldn’t get care, and wouldn’t be effective if it was run by the government.  We aren’t ready, or at least that’s the general consensus in my area of Texas.  
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  • mandk1233mandk1233 member
    @DDRRT1982 As a Canadian, I appreciate your take on this. The average American really doesn't understand our healthcare system, from what I can tell. I have no worries about going into medical debt if something goes wrong. And, now that I am pregnant, I don't have to worry about how much my prenatal care or delivery are going to cost my family. Yes, it does have its problems, but I would not trade it for anything. 
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  • DDRRT1982DDRRT1982 member
    @mandk1233 every system has it’s set of problems, but ours has some moral issues attached it, honestly.  When your elderly can’t afford their medications to prevent hospital visits or death something is very wrong.  

    @doodleoodle isn’t it amazing how many well educated and intelligent people you can come across that don’t research or just recite the same boring nonsense.  I have so much respect for my husband, but his politics is so one sided and lacks some research.  
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  • rikiteacuprikiteacup member
    @doodleoodle my friend had a c-section and she remembers the bar code scanner in her room. Every time they would use something they would scan it. Your baby needs a little bit of moisturizer? Scan! It gave her anxiety about her final bill.
    TTC#1
    10/2018: MFI (2 SA under 9 million/ml)
    11/2018: HSG shows right Fallopian tube slightly damaged 
    1/2019: Husband diagnosed with grade 3 varicocele
    4/05/2019: varicocele repair surgery
    6/13/2019: BFP!!! EDD: 2/22/2020 <3  Baby girl born 2/27/2020
    7/18/2019: Total Motile Count at 3 months post surgery = 51 millions!! (number must be >20 millions to conceive naturally).

    TTC #2
    9/07/2021: BFP - CP: 9/10/2021
    10/07/2021: BFP - CP: 10/23/2021
    12/23/2021: BFP! EDD: 08/31/2022

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  • doodleoodledoodleoodle member
    @rikiteacup they scanned a bar code for every little thing with my vaginal birth too. Fun fact!.. if you end up delivering med free make sure that they don’t try to charge you for the epidural anyway. 
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  • brookert615brookert615 member
    All I know is that I'm yoinking every darn thing at the hospital that isn't bolted down LOL.
    TW
    BFP 6/3/19 EDD 2/14/20 BFP 4/15/21 EDD 12/20/21
    Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
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  • craftywitchcraftywitch member
    I don't like the "mute" features on Instagram. If people don't like me or my content, I want to know it and be able to see that they've unfollowed me so I know where I stand. I feel like the "mute" option is sneaky.
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  • tmk2021tmk2021 member
    My anxiety just went up at the thought of scanning and barcodes at the hospital lol. Why can’t they do that on the computer? Do they have to do it in the room? I feel like I’m going to be a nervous wreck as it is, I don’t want to have a mental ticker going in my head every time I need something 😂
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  • jvk2012jvk2012 member
    @taylork2020, I don’t think my hospital scanned anything except medications. Not all hospitals do that. Honestly, it was the absolute last thing on my mind with a new baby. 
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  • DDRRT1982DDRRT1982 member
    We scan at my hospital, but I always thought it was more for inventory reasons.  I am not on the billing aspect of healthcare, but I am not sure we charge for every little thing vs some of it is included in a package.  
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  • DDRRT1982DDRRT1982 member
    @craftywitch wait, there’s a mute feature on IG?  Where would you find that?
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  • brookert615brookert615 member
    @stassischroeder Bahaha! Yes! It's impossible to get out of it. I was just freaking out once I hit it because there's NO WAY TO UNDO... just waiting for the inevitable generic message about how great your products are 🙄.


    TW
    BFP 6/3/19 EDD 2/14/20 BFP 4/15/21 EDD 12/20/21
    Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
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  • ibabyloveb87ibabyloveb87 member
    @brookert615 I hate allllll the pyramid schemes. There’s one girl who does BeachBody and she only posts about how it allowed her to be a SAHM. It is SO obnoxious. 
    Me:33
    DH: 34
    Married: May 2011
    TTC #1: May 2015
    DS: 10/20/2016
    TTC #2: June 2019
    #2 EDD: 2/20/2020
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  • jessieR358jessieR358 member
    edited August 2019
    doodleoodle said:
    @rikiteacup they scanned a bar code for every little thing with my vaginal birth too. Fun fact!.. if you end up delivering med free make sure that they don’t try to charge you for the epidural anyway. 
    I was charged $500 for a bag of IV fluids I never received. I disputed the bill and they wouldn’t take it off! I know I didn’t get it because my IV fell out the second she put it in and another one wasn’t attempted. 
    To add to the Americans not knowing insurance, I get a kick out of people handing over car insurance cards when 
    the MA asks for insurance at my clinic. Unfortunately, there are so many people with Medicaid that know “everything is free” and up the price of healthcare for everyone else. 
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  • jvk2012jvk2012 member
    @babyroma, all the ketchup on my hot dogs!
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  • jvk2012jvk2012 member
    UO: I hate being a SAHM during the summer. My DD hates it too. I hate trying to figure out how to spend our days because she goes insane if we just stay home all day. We both do so much better when I am working and she is in daycare. 
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  • jessieR358jessieR358 member
    jvk2012 said:
    UO: I hate being a SAHM during the summer. My DD hates it too. I hate trying to figure out how to spend our days because she goes insane if we just stay home all day. We both do so much better when I am working and she is in daycare. 
    Check out busytoddler on IG. She’s a life saver 
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  • daffodil_shoedaffodil_shoe member
    My UO for the day: if you are accepting government assistance, maybe you should concentrate on the kids you have and stop purposely having more, expecting the government to help even more.

    Brought to you by my sister posting on fb asking if anyone knows how she can get help paying for daycare, and stating she should have another baby because then they could get help paying for daycare.


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  • jvk2012jvk2012 member
    @jessieR358, thanks!
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  • brookert615brookert615 member
    @craftywitch YES!!! I totally agree with you! About the pyramid schemes and the LLR leggings!  :disappointed:

    @stassischroeder Haha! That's always the case it seems. WE ALL KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, GO AWAY. For a while on my instagram I had "Please don't message me about your pyramid schemes." and I think it really worked! 

    @ibabyloveb87 It is obnoxious. I feel like they're trained to make it seem it's their way or the highway. I hate when they're like "my diet let's me eat cake, does yours?" and I'm like "I'm on the I eat whatever TF I want diet, sooo"

    @daffodil_shoe Don't even get me started on that! 


    TW
    BFP 6/3/19 EDD 2/14/20 BFP 4/15/21 EDD 12/20/21
    Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
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  • robynlynn2000robynlynn2000 member
    @jessieR358 my mil is one of those people who has 6 kids and has been on gov assistance her whole life. She told me with each birth that it wont cost anything because I have insurance and pay it every week. Im like, yeah i pay a premium for the privilege of having ins, that does not vount toward my $3000+ deductible. She also gets upset when I dont take my kids to the doc on the first day of having an illness. I always wait to see if it will resolve at home, before I opt to pay $150+ for the doc to say "take Tylenol and monitor it." She also took her kids to the ER for doctors notes for missing school. Like yeah, you dont have to pay that $500+ but the tax payers do! Its so annoying. I wont even allow her to talk about insurance and healthcare in my house.
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  • kmj1426kmj1426 member
    @daffodil_shoe YESS. This frustrates me so much.

    As for MLMs and pyramid schemes. Not even gonna lie, I tried them (two different companies 😳), bought the lie and was one of those people messaging people to try and make money before I even tried the products. The scripted messages they have you send are absolutely ridiculous, most of the weight loss products do not work, and I stopped because I realized how crappy the product actually was. Honestly, it’s embarrassing to be associated with those types of businesses. The people who sign up to be a representative are the ones funding the business. But now I get to tell people who message me that I know the product doesn’t work and to please stop sending me the photoshopped photos the companies provide. 
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  • DDRRT1982DDRRT1982 member
    @robynlynn2000 maybe back in her day the insurance did provide more coverage than yours does now.  As employers and insurance companies cut coverage and pass it on to the employee or consumer, we feel the financial burden more like you described.  I know that in the 16 years I have been having babies my insurance has gone from 100% coverage after $500 deductible to 80/20 after $3500 deductible.  My son’s $800,000 NICU stay was covered  100% 16 years ago, but if I had the same experience now I would owe 20%.  Ouch!  My premiums have also gone up.  I use to pay $150 for a family and now I pay $350 every two weeks.  Granted these are different companies, but my husband’s access to insurance is very similarly priced and set up with the 80/20.    
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  • sunshinegardensunshinegarden member
    edited August 2019
    My UO is that I wish everyone had access to a free education and healthcare like in most other first world European countries. America seems obsessed with helping the individual get rich when I feel a lot of other places I have traveled to take far better care of their people as a whole. Also I wish Americans prioritized family more like back in traditional times instead of our modern concept of booting the 18 yr old out, and being old all by yourself (rise in demetia) like how in my husband's culture there are no stigmas and generations live together, give money back and forth easily, stay close and are very involved in their childrens lives for life, and in return the children take care of their parents when old. I find american parenting to be cold with incredibly high standards on their kids to 'make it' when that world doesn't exist anymore. No mom/dad I can't work at Elmer's and pay for a 4 yr degree and men don't propose at 21 anymore, if at all. 
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  • doodleoodledoodleoodle member
    @sunshinegarden did your parents kick you out at 18? I’ve never known anyone who’s been kicked out. I left at 18, but it was my own choice. 
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  • jennv0701jennv0701 member
    Hey, congrats on your engagement @stassischroeder. 
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  • jessieR358jessieR358 member
    @babyroma add me to the group of people that can’t stand people who abuse go fund me accounts!! I can’t stand it. Does it suck paying for adult things? Yeah, it does. Suck it up like the rest of us. 
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