What's mindboggling is this:
The higher rate is based on a Caesarean costing an average of $2,700 more than a vaginal birth
So they're fucking with people's lives over a hypothetical cost that could be wiped out with a single sprained ankle anyway?
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
brenda m - May 31, 2008 1:10:16 pm PDT #1361 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Nicole - May 31, 2008 1:10:40 pm PDT #1362 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
I don't know how you do it, Cash. I just... I don't.
My usual rule is once they hit the one year mark, I'm out. No more babysitting, fewer visits to the house, etc. My girlfriend Laura, however, has these big brown eyes and she looks all sweet and innocent when she says, "Adison will just sit and play quietly the whole time we're gone."
LIAR! Cranky two year old crying jag since about 15 minutes after mommy and daddy left.
hippocampus - May 31, 2008 1:11:31 pm PDT #1363 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Cranky two year old crying jag since about 15 minutes after mommy and daddy left.
apply video stat.
t /badmommy
Nicole - May 31, 2008 1:17:49 pm PDT #1364 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
We've watched Bee Movie and Unaccompanied Minors. We've played Hand Adison One Piece Of Cereal At A Time. She's had two 4oz bottles because she hasn't been feeling good. She's tired as all heck, but she's just basically fighting sleep.
Can a two year old have grapes? Are there allergy issues with grapes and toddlers?
SuziQ - May 31, 2008 1:23:18 pm PDT #1365 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Trying to remember the advice on grapes. Can't think of allergy issues, just choking - so cut them in half?
Susan W. - May 31, 2008 1:27:09 pm PDT #1366 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Can't think of allergy issues, just choking - so cut them in half?
Yeah, I was feeding Annabel halved grapes long before she was two, probably before she was one.
Nicole - May 31, 2008 1:27:42 pm PDT #1367 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
Thanks, Suz. I'll try to keep her entertained with the last of the cereal. I just know she's going to zonk out five minutes before parents show up. Grr.
How are you, hon? Everything as hectic as ever?
eta: You just answered that in Natter. Nebbermind.
SuziQ - May 31, 2008 1:30:10 pm PDT #1368 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
As I just mentioned in Natter, it is PROM DAY!!!!! So, we just got home from doing hair and 2 of her friends came over here to get ready. Girl-a-poluza in the house!
As for the hectic, yes. Set the date with the movers, will get paperwork to sign for them on Monday. They should be picking our stuff up on Friday, the 27th, so the kids and I will be camping in the house until Monday (possibly Tuesday) before CJ and I hop a plane to Denver.
More terrifying is the house hunting trip that starts on Wednesday.
Nicole - May 31, 2008 1:37:13 pm PDT #1369 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
Wow. Prom night, eh? Hoo boy. I do not envy you right now. I am excited to see pics of K-bug and E, though. Awwwww.
Whatever damage I might have done to myself by lifting a toddler today, I should be healed by Weds. And I got your email, which I'll answer soonish. Driving shouldn't be a problem by then. Just as long as I'm off the painkillers.
sj - May 31, 2008 1:38:57 pm PDT #1370 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Nicole. If you give her grapes, cut them in quarters, so she doesn't choke. I'm sorry the toddler is wearing you out.