Money Spent
March 3rd 2009: $52.76 – books
- Birthing From Within
- Spiritual Midwifery
- Expectant Father
- Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
September 10th, 2009: $31.29 – books
- NurtureShock
- What’s Going On In There?
September 29th, 2009: $78.35 – Polyclinic
- 5 different laboratory procedures, which include something called Gonadotropin Chorionic, a blood count something or other, a Rubella Antibody test, and a blood draw for the lab.
- We paid 100%, but it looks like each of the items on the list have a special “Regence adjustment”, which I assume is simply a special price that Regence gets that is lower than the normal charge.
November 24th, 2009: $428.73 – Polyclinic
- RTU PG UTRUS W/IMAG DOC T (ultrasound?) $178.22
- CYTHPTH CERV/VAG; THIN PRE (no idea) $34.90
- INJ RHO D IG HUMN MINIDOS (RH negative injection) $25.83
- THER/PROPH DIAG INJ SC/IM (?) $38.86
- UA DIP STICK/TABLET; AUTO $5.46
- CULT BACTERL; QUAN COLONY $13.91
- ADMN FLU VAC (flu vaccination) $7.00
- FLU VIR VAC SPLIT PF 3 YR (not sure) $3.59
- CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS, AM (chlamydia test) $60.48
- NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE, DI (gonorrhoea test) $60.48
January 31st: $1608.66 (good things, and residual hospital charges still coming in)
- Birth classes from Penny Simkin $250
- Doula services from Cheryl Murfin $1,000
- CYTOLOGY GYN INTERP (no idea) $33.04
- RTU PG UTERUS LTD 1/MORE $162.81
- RTU PG UTERUS LTD 1/MORE (what is this and why are we charged for two at once?) $162.81
February 14th: $536.32 (20-week ultrasound)
- us ob real time w image f (was $995, but adjusted for some reason to $536.32)
February 17th: $679 (accumulated maternity clothing totals)
- Maternity Jeans (3 pairs) $150
- Maternity Band (Amon) (2) $50
- Maternity Leggings (Ingrid and Isabel) $50
- Maternity Sweater (Gap) $24
- Maternity Stockings $20
- Maternity Top $20
- Various non maternity leggings, from first and second trimester (4 pairs) $100
- Vintage moo moos (2) $50
- Compression Stockings (9 pairs) $60
- Top Shop Maternity top $35
- Stripy awesome German top $55
- Vintage tuxedo top $15
- Vintage belt (2) $30
- Brown Sweater $20
March 20th: $20.43 (h1n1 flu shot)
- Influenza A H1N1 Administ $20.43
March 31st: $38.75 (diabetes tests)
- Glucose, 1hr p 50g Clucola, CBC, Ab Scm
March $25th: $995 (baby furniture and a new dress that is NOT maternity that I will wear every day this summer, I swear)
- Dress for shower $250 (I know, I know)
- Pram from Ebay $185
- Mid-century Cabinet and shelves $450
- Fabric to recover cabinet $30
- Containers for new shelves $150
- Mid-century rocking Chair $180
June 4th: $562.46
- Rainy City Midwifery: Initial visit/exam $206.33
- Pacific Medical Systems, Inc: Electronic breast pump $327.41
- Dynacare: Group B Strep DNA Probe $28.72
July 1st: $2,635.43
- Polyclinic Office Visit (how is this possible??) $111.22
- Ultrasound, 41 weeks $325.89
- Fetal biophysical profile, 41 weeks $238.05
- Laboratory $22.68
- Drugs/medical $0.59
- Laboratory $3.00
- Medical care $95.00
- Medical care (I’m assuming this is the full bill from the midwives): $1,839 (our $3,000 deductible finally hit and we got about $5.27.63 off the total bill)
TOTAL SO FAR: $7,667.18
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Awesome blog! I found it one night when I was google pre laboring for 3 weeks…ugh. This cost summary makes me so happy I live on Canada. I couldn’t imagine having to drop that kind of coin…mostly because I don’t have that kind of dough. Keep blogging :)
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much!
Books — library, bookstore with comfy chair. Bring home only the ones you want for reference books, like The Birth Partner. Worth EVERY cent. And Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth. Birthing from Within was cool but I never got around to doing any of the exercises for any of my kids, so it was sort of a waste of money.
Classes — You took classes from Penny Simkin in person? I mean, you MET her? I AM SO JEALOUS!!!!!!
Medical stuff — I don’t think I paid more than a few hundred in copays for any of my kids including whatever tests I had done. Even my NYC births were under 1,000 in copays!
BTW… I think I may have hit 750 words just in comments today. Does that count? ;)