Did I mention our u/s is scheduled? I think so, but if not... it will be January 9th in Jax. Hopefully this is our last trip over there. Tried scheduling the 1st OB appt, but they pretty much even talk to me about anything until I am officially released by the fertility specialist. That really bothered me.
Since we are still paying out of pocket for anything regarding the fertility clinic, I asked how much our u/s will be. We were told $350 consistently since last May, but I wanted to confirm. It WAS different & here's how it breaks down...
u/s of 1 baby: $250
u/s of 2 babies: $375
u/s of 3 babies: $500
Plus the office visit fee of $70.
Is this normal at your clinic? I wonder how much extra work it is for each baby to cost $125 more per baby. Oh, yeah, out of pocket, too! :) Glad we are getting that cryo money back to help pay for it!
Paid off our 1st part of the labwork (the estrogen during the stim phase + the hCG/prog/estrogen from beta #1)... $375. Since I'm working a half-day tomorrow, I'm heading by the hospital to pay the hCG check from yesterday. Not sure how much it will be, but I can say I'm happy to be able to start saving next month for the baby!!
We'll be meeting with our financial guy for our normal semi-annual check in come January, so we're hoping he'll have some sort of advice of money we should save or what-not for the baby's arrival. Any advice any of ya'll have would be great, too! Our current plan is to just pad our emergency fund more & save more for my maternity leave... I won't have enough leave by then (due to bed rest for this & past surgeries for endo) to cover 6 weeks, but part of it. So, we'll need to have that packed away.
Enough of my rambling, I'll sign off now. Heading grocery shopping for tomorrow night... we'll have a bonfire & friends over for the New Years Eve. Really looking forward to it!
Today we are 5wks along.
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weird that they have different prices according to the number of babies... hmm....
The bonfire sounds fabulous! I'm so jealous... i love bonfires. i also love the way i smell afterwards... all the smoke in my clothes and hair.. to remind me that I had a wonderful time outdoors. :) Happy new year!
hmm i'm not sure how my clinic charged for multiples. i know none of it was cheap though! about the fruit and description, it's babycenter.com that i've been using. just go there then click on how many weeks you are pregnant and read all about it! a big congrats again. and you must put US pics up when you get them!
Wow! congrats! strange pricing system. haven't been preg with multiples so don't know about that at our clinic.
glad to read your update!
Mo
Bizzare among the prices, at our clinic we pay 5K for an IVF cyle which includes all u/s prior to and post transfer including when you have the 6 week scan, no extra charges (but I'm in Canada where there is no insurance and the costs of ivf are lower).
I am so happy that things are rolling on so well. :-) Can't wait to see the U/S results
YAY for five weeks!!
I think it is really odd that the scan is more depending on the number of babies...I have never heard of that!
How in the world do they get off charging more for multiples? If they were billing your insurance they wouldn't have a way to do it since it's one charge. Sounds fishy. But of course I'm sure they get away with it.
Your chart looks a lot like mine did. ;-)
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