{"id":92,"date":"2004-02-12T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T20:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2006-06-27T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T03:33:49","slug":"birthing-classes-insurance-and-the-meaning-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Birthing Classes, Insurance, and the Meaning Of It All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birthing Classes, Insurance, and The Meaning Of It All<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We finished our series of birthing classes yesterday, which means that all of a sudden, I can do things on Wednesday nights again (such as play doubles racquetball, hint, hint). It also means that I have learned a lot about childbirth, the stages of labor, and every other thing that matters. Childbirth class was fun, and we had a great teacher.<\/p>\n<p>We also were in infant safety and CPR class Tuesday night. If there is ever a more depressing, angst-producing film in the universe than the house safety film, I dare people to name it. Every room, every drawer, everything in my house can cause Serious Injury. It seems like the ideal home would be something like the supermax penitentiaries where all of the furniture is molded into\/out of the walls. Even then, you&#8217;d have to ensure that all of the corners were rounded down.<\/p>\n<p>Our insurance situation is reaching some sort of conclusion: it makes no sense to cover me on COBRA because I&#8217;ve already used GISD&#8217;s insurance. However, we can choose to cover Laureen only because of the pre-existing condition clause. This is a Good Idea as we don&#8217;t have to pay the entire $800 or so per month for both of us on top of what we pay Garland. Either way, I&#8217;m looking into incorporating and finding a way to insure us through a side corporation. That would help matters out a bit, except that I know very little about it.<\/p>\n<p>As far as The Meaning Of It All, I&#8217;m open to suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birthing Classes, Insurance, and The Meaning Of It All We finished our series of birthing classes yesterday, which means that all of a sudden, I can do things on Wednesday nights again (such as play doubles racquetball, hint, hint). It also means that I have learned a lot about childbirth, the stages of labor, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birthing Classes, Insurance, and the Meaning Of It All&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jacob","category-perspectives","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}