New Nephew Shower

My sister Tracey is having a baby! In about a month I will have a new nephew to love and spoil. We spent this weekend giving her a shower in Price. But first of course, we planned and created. She loves frogs so we went with a frog theme and Mike helped me make these cute invites.

And water-bottle wraps

And I made a couple of these topiaries

We had a cousin of ours make cupcakes and I made cupcake pics to put in them.

At the shower we munch on a yummy lunch of soup and salad. Then played one game. It was a stumper.

Then it was time to see all the tiny goodies for this baby boy.

I think she made quite the haul and this is going to be one stylish little dude.

In the News-Progesterone Price Increase

Channel 2 ran a story last night about the Progesterone price related to my last post. In the video is my friend who posted the article and her family. Their piece says that no woman will be turned down because of their inability to pay. However, the previous article states that's only for those women that are uninsured, which is not us.

http://connect2utah.com/news-story/?nxd_id=135266

Holy Crapoly!

Interesting Article : http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-preemie-birth-spikes.html

For those of you that have been around for my previous pregnancies, you know that I tend to give birth early to my kiddo's. There's no rhyme or reason to it that they have found (so far) but after having 3 kiddo's spend several weeks in the NICU, we were really laying the questions about preventing this on the Doctor at the last appointment. One of the things he suggested were progesterone shots weekly, either in the office or me learning to give them to myself (yikes!). But we figure it's all worth it if we can keep this one in there more than 33weeks (my record). So we decided we would discuss it more at my next appointment coming up on Monday and make a plan of action at that time.

A friend of mine who has the same sorts of infertility and premature birth issues as we do is currently on these shots and posted a link to this article on her FB page. All of the rights to the progesterone shots have been sold to one manufacturing group. Starting next week, just in time for us, it is expected that because of this, the price per shot will go from $10 per shot upwards to $1500 per shot. Yes, you heard that right, $1500 PER SHOT!

Mike's insurance plan is currently an HSA plan which means that up until a certain limit each year we have to pay 100% out of pocket and a small Health Savings account that his company contributes to every month. For the most part, it works-however when something like this pokes it's head in, I am at a loss. How in the world are we supposed to afford this price and weekly at that? The good news is that we would hit that deductible fairly quickly, the bad news we would be in major debt trying to pay the bills flowing in constantly until we hit it.

I am open to any other ideas and suggestions of other ways to keep this baking long enough. Any thoughts?

!!The Ouren Caboose!!

It's official! The Ouren caboose is on his or her way this September. We had our 11.5 week appointment today and things are looking good. We had a rough start to this pregnancy and have had to go in every 1-2 weeks for the last 6 weeks but at the last couple of appointments, things have looked a lot better for us and we are feeling more confident. We are very excited to bring this last addition into our family and to share with everyone the updates as we move forward.

And to put it into Caleb's words when I told him the news, "Finally!"