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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
I feel like I killed the board...
Didn't mean to start Monday off on a sad note! 
Re: I feel like I killed the board...
oh you didn't!
I went to the grocery store, picked up some prescriptions and now I'm washing Elise's car seat. It was getting pretty yuck!
No, I think that labor/delivery issues are probably a touchy subject right now on this board, because it's something that people don't really want to hear when they're expecting. But the sad reality is that having a baby takes a MAJOR toll on the body, not just visually. I think a lot of people don't really think about that when all they are used to is happy hunky-dory stories, but people do need to be more aware.
Probably everyone is just busy though today. You know how Mondays are!
Nah, just a slow Monday.
I'm in the middle of typing up what could be a potentially controversial blog post. It's kept me busy for at least the past hour.
ooooh which blog?? Can't wait!
The baby blog. It's about how much babies really cost in their first year. I don't think I was prepared for it and I am out to save bank accounts, one pg lady at a time.
The Nifty Foodie
Life/Craft Blog
it is seriously expensive. We hadn't really planned that well, we had money in savings and all. Our deductible was $3000 and had already paid $2500 of it when I got laid off at 8 months. My cobra deductible would have been $5000 then. Luckily since I wasn't working (who's gonna hire an 8 months preg person?!) we qualified for LAMoms. I wasn't going to do WIC stuff since I wanted to breastfeed, but then when I had the heart problems I had no choice but to formula feed b/c of my medications. So we applied for WIC and were able to get it for her. And part of me feels embarrassed by that, but at the same time, I worked nonstop since I was 15 and so did DH, so we more than paid our share! And it saved us. My hospital bills would have been several hundred thousands, and LaMoms paid 100 % (of course we had already paid that $2500 deduc.). And just formula for a baby every month is like $120 a month. I know we COULD have managed it without the help we were able to get, but it was nice not having to!
And not to mention diapers! Whew! Elise goes through one package of diapers a week. Talk about "sh*tting money away!!" Can't wait to potty train!
That post just killed any scrap of baby fever I had. LOL! I needed that though...we aren't planning to try for a few years!
The Nifty Foodie
Life/Craft Blog
LOL Shoe, definitely budget for that epi!
When the contractions were coming every 45 seconds, they could have come in and said "you can have an epi but it will cost $3 million!" I would not have hesitated before saying yes!!
Worth.Every.Penny.
hey Shoe, about that Epi, its around $900 and the BEST money spent!
I love your post. It is very well written.
especially the *coughcoughinlawscoughcough* part.
and I completely understand every word of it and have been there, twice, and still there....you think little Lacie wants to potty yet? haha! nope! so i am still buying the dreaded diapers. well, pull ups now because Dora the Explorer is on them.
WHAT?!?! Hells no I am not paying $900 for that. Someone remind me of that when I'm in labor please.
And thank you. I had some help from a fellow nestie.