Today I added the last few bills that have come in on the cost to have a baby without maternity insurance page. Believe it or not, we’re still waiting to hear back from Quest Diagnostics on Jane’s February visit. But as you can imagine, I’m not going to call and remind them, “hey, don’t forget that you still need to send us that bill we talked to you about in February!”
So what’s the final grand total? A whopping $10,529.09. Urgh. But you know what? We have a healthy baby boy who did not have any complications and a Mommy who did a great job delivering Monkey who also didn’t have any [click to continue…]
On Twitter the other day I asked people’s opinions about whether or not I should bring my own unopened bottle of Ibuprofen and stool softeners. (Ibuprofen for any after birth pain and stool softeners to make things come out more easily in case there is tearing involved after labor and delivery.)
Many people told me not to worry about it. ”That’s what insurance is for”, they said. Oh, I only wish [click to continue…]
Pregnant Jane has been asking me for the last few days to confess on our pregnancy blog about my “packing for the hospital” ordeal. Now before I dive into the whole “packing for the hospital” bit, Jane wanted me to share what I have prepared in our car for you.
The other day to get the ball rolling, I did something that has become a target for laughter for Pregnant Jane, and she seems to want to show and share with anyone who goes into our car!
Hidden behind the backseat is a [click to continue…]
I’ve heard about the Ricki Lake movie “The Business of Being Born” for some time now, but haven’t actually looked into watching it. The other night as I was scrolling down to see what was on tv I saw that the movie was coming on one of the movie channels so I was happy to get to watch it since I obviously wasn’t being proactive on finding the movie out on my own.
It sort of made me wish that I watched it earlier in my pregnant instead of waiting until I was 37 weeks pregnant. Oh well, what do you do?
I would recommend [click to continue…]
Before I go into detail about the Jane going into labor scare today, let’s talk about the cost to have a baby with no maternity insurance. The cost to have a baby officially broke the $10,000 mark the other day - which is the amount we’ve paid thus far out of our pocket.
We’ve done everything we can to negotiate the lowest amount hospitals, doctors, blood work people, etc. all the way to the cash price for Pregnant Jane’s delivery at the hospital. I’m sure we’d be near $20,000.00 [click to continue…]
Today I spent over $4,700 without even leaving the house. Ugh.
I called the hospital to pay for little Tarzan’s birth and all the extras that come along with it. On one hand, I feel extremely lucky that we were able to pay for everything upfront because that ultimately saves so much money in the end.
But on the other hand, dammit, it was a lot [click to continue…]
Jane and I just got back from her pregnancy week 19, second trimester doctor appointment. Everything went great and we got to listen to baby Tarzan’s heartbeat again! He’s doing great and growing up to be a big strong boy.
As we left the doctor’s office, I went to the counter and paid my $528.00 (see updated cost of having a baby page) and asked how much extra would we have to pay if by small chance Jane had to have a C-section. Her answer was an additional $200 or so.
OK, not as much as I was expecting – considering we’re shelling out $528 every visit, [click to continue…]
I bet you knew this was coming at some point… The more I think about it, the more I realize how unprepared we are – and how much Jane and I have to do when it comes to figuring out what we need to get for Tarzan Junior.
I was just on Amazon.com looking at a book and before I knew it I was scrolling through the pages and pages of baby strollers and reading the reviews.
I just stepped into a world I never once spent one second thinking about…
There are like 40 billion different types of strollers out there. I don’t know if this is normal dad-to-be thinking, [click to continue…]
In our continuing saga of the cost to have a baby, we broke the $2,000 mark today. A couple of weeks ago Jane and I received a bill in the mail from the company that did her original blood work back in December. We had already paid them $320 and I knew the bill they sent me asking for another $250 had to be a mistake.
I called them and they asked me to fax a copy of the paperwork and the receipt. Today the woman called me back and explained something oh so wonderful to me.
The $250 in charges where for “extra tests” they needed to do based on the results of the other tests they took. Oh… if the woman only knew how much I’ve been on a rampage for things like this.
I told her that I approved what Jane’s doctor said she needed for tests and nothing else. She then said at the bottom of the form in small print it says [click to continue…]
OK, so I’ve been running behind and Pregnant Jane has been on my butt to upload all of her 
= a post from Mommy Jane 
= a post from Daddy Tarzan
