Re: New Mommies to be May, June & July 2011

Solo, that sounds soooo nice. All the goodies. Enjoiy unpacking!

Rakker, ag no man. Hope you feel better soon! Will add her name.

Mandymel, I would have suffered a stroke. Why couldn't they have told you earlier? They have known what ma you have forever!

Dis-chem phoned. I can get whatever sizes nappies I want, they will hold for me till I can go there. My baby bag is also there. Jay!

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Wow MandyMel! I thought my boy was big weighing 2.6kg at 34 weeks! Glad your scan went well and that all is well. Gosh sorry about the R1600-00! Yikes. Your gynae should have told you that there was a shortfall in the medical aid payments. That's a lot to fork out at once. I'm petrified that I'm going to have shortfall payments for the birth.

Just an update - went for my 32week scan today at the gynae and Mia is doing well - big and healthy, she weighs 2.3kg's now...had to go for the normal blood tests to check for any anti-bodies (i'm ABrh-) so the gynae monitors that...so ya, was feeling gr8 up until the point that we were about to leave and the receptionist called me to remind me about the R1600 gynae fee which needs to be paid upfront b4 the delivery date..i wasn't worried about that as we are on a 200% plan which covers everything and also covered everything last year when we had our first born..nope she tells me, they have had claims come back that are on the same 200% plan where our medical aid didn't cover the whole bill...so I rush to get back to work and call the medical aid immediatly and explain the whole tutti frutti to them and they inform me they do cover 200% of specialists fees HOWEVER only if the specialist charges medical aid scheme rates...i call my gynae's receptionist back and she informs me that they charge 46% over the m/a rate which explains *(why everything is not covered)..so i want to know why then was everything paid last year and now all of a sudden we having to pay this cost..well its because they increased their tariffs in feb so that's why it differs from last yr..

So i'm thinking, wtf!! Who just has R1600 lying around??.. and we have to make a plan to have this paid off b4 i'm 36 weeks..if we had know sooner we could have paid it off in instalments like all the other ladies do, instead of leaving it for the last...and why did we bother switching to a higher cover with the m/a so that we can have 200% just to at the end still pay costs out of our pocket!!

So ya, my good day turned sour very quickly

Aaauw, Solo u so lucky to have gotten so many nice things from your colleagues - they really did spoil you rotten And a baby play gym mat as well!!! Lucky fish, i'm sooo envious

TaNasha wow, I got plenty of baby clothes. I also got a gym play mat (yay), baby toiletries, hats, bibs, socks, cute little socks from Woolies with heads and tails etc, um nappies and... and... and a sleep sack phew. I have been looking for a sleep sack/sleeping bag and the only ones I could find were 6 - 12 months. I sat for about half an hour and just unwrapped gifts!!! It will be like Christmas when I get home and look at everything again. There was a special cake with a beautiful sleeping baby boy decoration, cards, paper plates and serviettes - all especially with a baby boy theme. A lot of thought and planning went into it and I am very touched. There will be photos...

Sorry for being MIA. Don't get time for nothing. In bed with food poisoning .

TaNasha, thinking of you and hoping all is well.

Esmari, my LG's name is Cherise if you want to add that.