My husbands best friend of 16 years is having a baby. They were earning more than us,(she is now too pregnant to work), and have always/ still live well beyond their means. They eat out regularly, rent an aunts house which they haven’t paid rent in 3 months, buy designer clothes for them & unborn, have spent $4000 on baby gear,(not including nursery gear)- despite being offered free stuff from a brother who had used his stuff on 1 baby & they just got a personal loan for $20,000- for a car, & a $2000 engagement ring. When we give them advice on how to save, get their own home, save money by buying good quality but less expensive baby items & clothes, buy 2nd hand goods- they brush it off. They say they want only “the best” and it makes me feel like they think we dont want the best for our child or they think their money makes them better than us. We are in a great situation- own home,car-no debt, and they are nearly $40,000 in debt. Should I ignore them & smile or say something?

Why I gotta pay $400 per month. I should be paying like $50. Kids don’t even eat that much. Seems to me the females getting pregnant are getting payed and us guys are paying for them not taking precautions. Maybe females are just playing games to get payed. They don’t pay no rent, get free money, formula, and food stamps. Maybe I should just bounce and stop working. I don’t really feel no connection to the baby any ways

any websites would be helpful im trying to buy for baby and kids stuff or even where they can give free clothes for kids. thanks
only serious answers please don’t waste your time and mine’s.

Ok so our wee girl has been having excessive bowel movements the past 2 months any where from 8-10 times perday. Before that she went anywhere from 4-6 times per day ever since she started solids before solids it was 3 times a day. Well the doctor has reccomended that we put her BACK on her formula due to the excessive increase in bowel movements she thinks it may be the milk….But how in the world is a milk based formula going to be any different? She used to be on a lactose free formula but outgrew the intolerance at around 6 months of age and hasnt had any issues with a milk based formula so im confused……………..
How is whole milk any different than a milk based formula? It isnt is it?

I want to have at least $200 in my pocket by Halloween and I’m 14 so I can’t get a job, I have two little siblings that I watch and so I don’t want to Babysit, what are some other options for me? If you have ANY ideas, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
By the way, I just want to start buying things for myself without having to ask my parents so that is why I want to do this.

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons:
1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963.
2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after.
3. Jack Ruby-who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later..by coincidence.
“On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That’s almost 44 per day—every day)
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the wo men who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That’s 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas.
According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.
The average patient in Parkland ‘s maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on heir immigration status or ability to pay.
OK, fine. That doesn’t mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do.
Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE.
The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child—her previous two were also born at Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won’t turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)
How long has this been going on? What are the long-term affects? Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the U.S. illegally—now she is having her own child there as well. (That’s right, she’s technically a U.S. citizen.) These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.
Most of these things are available to American citizens as well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable.
Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification—no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income—an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.
“My husband is a pilot for the United States Navy (yes, he fought in Iraq ) and while the health care is good, we Navy wives don’t get any of these perks!” Car seats? Diapers? Not so much. So my question is this: Does our public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American citizens? Yes it does!
As I mentioned, the care I have received is perfectly adequate but it’s bare bones, meat and potato medical care—not top of line.
Their (the illegals) medical care is free—simply because they are il legal immigrants? Once again, there is no way to verify their income.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the ‘free’ care is not so easy for Americans.)
There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment
because they resided outside of Dallas County So the hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U.S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?
As if that isn’t annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her.
In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) req uirement.
In the meantime, I have to end my column here. I have to go buy a car seat.”
(Ed: Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation—-particularly to our “employees” in Congress.)
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY US CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
If you want to verify accuracy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrati…

I really, really don’t have time for cloth diapers with my special needs baby, but I want to be more environmentally friendly. I see some diapers labeled as chlorine free or organic or green in the stores, and they are much more expensive. I don’t want to purchase them unless they are truly much better for the planet. Would my money be better spent on something else environmentally friendly, like organic produce or something like that?

Is it because WIC provides free formula to the less educated poor people?

I have my 5 month old Maltipoo puppy on Orijen Puppy Formula. I’m a little concerned about the high protein (42%) content. I was wondering if there is another brand which is also all natural and grain free that has an acceptable amount of protein, around 28%, for my puppy? if it helps, he is 5 month old and round 3 pounds.