Dealing with the worry?

silverlife · #1 December 26th, 2010, 01:19 PM

I'm not TTC yet, but I figure that at some point, I will be. My clinic likes to do early ultrasounds so I figured that once I'm pregnant they wouldn't have a problem getting me in at 6 or 7 weeks to date the pregnancy, see the heartbeat, and give me peace of mind.

But I just found out that my new insurance sucks. They consider pretty much anything besides a standard prenatal office visit to be "non-routine". Which means they don't cover it under the typical maternity care coverage. This means I'll have to pay extra for every lab test, every ultrasound, even a rhogam shot is "non-routine". This means that I can't have hCG or ultrasounds just for piece of mind.

So once it is time to TTC (and hopefully get pregnant), how can I deal with the worry? How can I assure myself that everything is going okay with the pregnancy? Anyone else have crummy insurance? What do you do?

Shadeauxe · #2 December 26th, 2010, 01:31 PM

Well, after a certain point you can hear the heartbeat. I know they sell heartbeat monitors for personal use. Maybe that would help. I don't know how to ease any worry up to that point. Hopefully others have more advice.

missy123 · #3 December 26th, 2010, 01:44 PM

I do not have any health insurance. We just save money and use care credit (a credit card just for medical bills) to pay our expenses.

silverlife · #4 December 27th, 2010, 06:30 PM

My clinic doesn't try to find the heartbeat at appointments until 11 or 12 weeks. I lost my baby at 10 weeks, so I know that I'll be a huge ball of nerves until then.

I had mentioned the heartbeat monitors to my husband and he thought it would just make me more anxious to be trying to find the heartbeat on my own.

j&jmom · #5 December 27th, 2010, 08:20 PM

I'm not sure if there is anything that will keep me from worrying when I finally do get pg again . . . but if you figure something out, let me know!

My3Boys64 · #6 December 28th, 2010, 06:32 AM

I just wanted to say I know how you feel - my OB only does 10 week u/s so I will just have to wait and it will be sooo hard. I am not sure how I will manage. I know I have to stay positive and relax, but I also know I will not feel happy and truly positive until I pass the 10 week mark and know all is ok. Its so different from my first two pregnancies when I had no worries.