I am not sure if Toronto people are richer or BC people just being cheap. I never heard anyone charging extra fee includes family doctor here. We already pay for the premium for the health care and now you have to pay $200 on top of it, it doesnt sound good to me. For OB, are there really big different if you go to other OB, or it is common in Toronto?
ahbocat,
For the test, there is blood test and IPS (checking the neck skin) and both should be free in ON regardless on your age, but many people dont go through it as the accuracy is not high, I think 80% on blood and 90% on IPS.
AMINO is taking the fluid from the tummy which is only free if you are high risk or over 35yrs. It is 100% accurate and the risk for miscarriage is rare. I did it as I am over 35yr as I want to make sure my baby is ok.
yes, it is normal to announce the news after 3months pregnancy when the baby is more stable.
Lily,
I am not sure that work the same in ON. After we select the OB, he/she will do the routine check up till you give birth. All hospitals do not have any OB and the hospital will call your OB when the time comes.
eg, my OB is on vacation right now till end of May. If I give birth this time, another doctor will deliver my baby. In the mean time, the replacement OB will take care of all routine check up as well as C-section. My OB told me that they work as a group while 5- OB together and if any one is absent or busy, one of them will replace her/his, so I dont need to worry at all.
Is it the same to any OB? If not, what happen if 2 mommies given birth at the same time?
not sure if it is different 6 years ago; for me, Dr. Ho specify the $200 isn't for delivery. It's for admin fee only. Also NYGH has a new policy that within 7pm to 7am, you can't appoint your OB to deliver your bb. Only the OB on duty can deliver your bb. As I said, you can choose not to pay the $200. Dr. Ho will provide the same quality of service. But if you need doctor notes and etc, he may charge at each request.
Last time, my bb wasn't delivered by Dr. Ho because it was early morning and on a weekend. This time wasn't delivered by Dr. Chu because bb was born at night; however the OB on duty was very very good. I am very happy with her help!
ahbocat,
if you join Lydia's class, you should join it early because the first class is the prenatal care. You will get a lot of info on what to eat and she will teach you some prenatal exercise. I think you take the first class in around 16 week is the best.
PoohPoohMaMa,
Glad to see you online! Forgot to ask you how much weight of your son? I remember you have a very big tummy before.
How about your daughter react to your son? Does she get jealous as you have spend more time on him?
My daughter seems understand me very much as she will tell me to eat more, otherwise the baby will starve inside. She said she will rock the baby as we have a rocker chair in the house specific for new born. Now she sleep with daddy as she knows I dont like she kick me at night. She also go along with daddy very well in the last long weekend when they join a sightseeing tours, except she wants to stay home with mommy more. She also knows she will not going to daycare by the end of this month as I told her that I will be at home to wait for the new baby to come.
I still come to BK, but no have time to leave message.
My boy is only 6 lb 2 oz; most of my tummy is water! but he is over 10 lb now.
My girl always throw me a tantrums. She cries everyday. Teacher complains she doesn't follow her instructions. :( Not sure if she has stress. She doesn't show negative to her brother. But she is very bossy around the house. She makes me very mad!! I tried the "soft" and "hard"; both not working. I hope your daughter will be fine.
I think I was mixed up by IPS and AMINO. I am still not too familiar with all the tests' names.
Thanks for telling me the new policy of NYGH!! I will discuss with my hubby again to see whether we pay the $200 delivery or not. For the $200 admin. fee...we will see!!
I think I will call Lydia this weekend to see her schedule. Hopefully, she still have spaces...I know one of my friends are interested to join the class too!!
PoohPoohMaMa,
Glad to hear that your son is gaining weight within short period of time. It means you really did a good job!
I hope I can follow your foot step to my son.
As I remember your daughter just started daycare, so it is normal for her to cry as it is the first time for her to leave you. All new environment may scare her and crying is normal.
Bossy..I am not sure whether will happen to my daughter as she seems respect me very much. Whenever daddy has problem with her, the only thing to scare her is calling mommy's cell phone, then she will calm down automatically. It works all time!
I know it sounds perfect to me now, but I am not sure what will happen when the baby really comes! Plus I am not sure what will happen to my husband if I am at hospital because my daughter do not want to go anywhere except follow daddy. I may need to face the child birth by myself if my daughter doesnt want to stay with my neigbour! This is the drawback that we dont have any relatives here!
5 more days for me to work and I will be at home with my daughter. Now I even have short breath if I go upstair to washroom! It is really a torture to me! My husband also warns his colleagues that he may leave any time. The other day he called home while my daughter and I were in washroom, so no one pick up the phone and it went to voicemail, he thought I was in the hospital already! He is such a panic person!
that's good your daughter is a little older, so she is more mature to welcome the baby.
My daughter doesn't cry at school at all; she loves going to school a lot. But she gives us all the troubles at home.
ahbocat,
you can email Lydia. Her website is www.lydialing.com. She replies email very often.
Dr. Ho doesn't charge $200 for delivery because he doesn't guarantee if he will deliver your bb. Don't mix up. He only charges $200 which is the admin fee.
PoohPoohMaMa,
Just wonder what problems you face at home as I may need to prepare. Yes, my daughter is older and it should be easier, but who knows what happen when the baby comes. Plus my daughter will be at home with me whole day while the baby comes until SEP when she starts kindergarten!
Look forward to hearing your stories as it can help me when the time comes.
I hope to hear any experienced mom to give me some advice. My daughter's temper isn't good before... so she gives me a lot of headache! I am so mad all the time!!
Luckily my boy is pretty easy to handle, otherwise, I will go crazy!!! :evil:
PoohPoohMaMa,
can you give me any examples? I dont have much hard time to my daughter as I am a tough person, I just walk out and let her cry. I can see my husband suffer most as he cannot stand for her crying and always give up to let her win.
My trick is to give reward if she behaves well and take away something she likes most when she doesnt behave well. eg, she loves play on computer and I will say clear up all games if she doesnt behave. Or I will give all the porsicles to my neigbour if she doesnt cooperate. I also give her hope by telling her she can go taller if she can eat dinner with us.
just like today, she throws tantrums 3 times already. I ask her to go to washroom before going to school today; I ask her to take off the shoes herself. She says she wants to have juice; I ask her to go downstairs with me, but she insists to drink it upstairs. Everytime she cries like hell.
I stand firm and she doesn't give in. She will cry and yell... until I either remove her to her room or a corner and let her cry. Then she will give in after 15 minutes and cooperate. She won't cooperate until I am yelling at her and leave her alone.
PoohPoohMaMa,
I will react different from you.
If she doesnt want to pee, it is fine as it may be truth. If she wants to drink juice, it is fine as well. Do you have rules that no drink/food upstair? If yes, you can tell her it is the rules and insist no matter how much she cries. I dont have rules about drink, but definitely no food upstair.
Sometimes you need to look back if it is worth to fight with your daughter?
for me, I never show anger to my daughter and I never yell at her. I will ask her why she want to have juice instead of peepee, then LISTEN as this is critical to solve the problem.
Yell or shout never solve any problem and I know she will copy what I did, so I am a peaceful person in front of her. Either I let her cry or I just follow her wish.
PoohPoohMaMa,
The other trick I use for sending her to daycare is saying she will be the No.1 to reach daycare. It works very well as my daughter loves to win. Although she may not be the No.1, just set a person who comes similar time or make something up, just to encourage her to do fast.
It also applies when we leave daycare as I am the person who pick her up. I will say if she doesnt put seat belt fast, then so and so will leave before us. Or she will dress up very fast in order to leave daycare faster. I also let her compete with me by who put the seat belt faster. Usually I will let her win in order to encourage her to do it again. If she wins, she will say mommy you are the loser, then I will say it doesnt matter as I will beat her next time.
I am not sure if your strategies will work on my daughter. She isn't that competitive person, but she asks a lot of questions and wants to be bossy all around! I stand firm and want to tell her that she isn't the boss of the house. But all the grandparents give in so fast and let her be the boss.
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