I paid the last hospital bill a few days ago (hopefully- the last anyway) and it dawned on me that we officially own our baby. Good thing, I suppose it would be terrible to have your baby repo'd.
When I called to make the last payment they said my card was declined (which is so embarrassing!!) so I called my bank. They looked into it and said that the hospital had ran the card for $10,000, instead of the $100 it was supposed to be. Well no wonder it was declined. I don't have nearly that much although I sure would like to! I called the hospital back and all they could say was "OOPS!"
I was looking over all the "explanation of benefits" for her birth and the total cost to have Ladybug was $16,000 and some change! YOWZA!! Hubbie doesn't make very much money at his job, but the benefits are amazing so I only had to pay a very small portion of that, just pennies in comparison to the THOUSAND's I had to pay for both my boys. $2,000 of that total was labeled for Ladybug's "ROOM and BOARD." As in the little plastic box she slept in for 3 days. In my room. Completely in my care. I guess the box did come with diapers!
Oh well, I'll just file this all away as one more thing I never have to do in life and celebrate the fact that we officially own our baby!
