Onslow County, NC (Jacksonville, Richlands, etc.) - Page 9

[MovingMomma]

We're in the market for a new truck. If anyone knows of someone selling a Tacoma extended cab for 8-10k, let me know!

There is nothing within walking distance. :P

Hopefully it won't take long to find a new vehicle.

[mercy]

car options

My Neighbor is selling a 2003 Tahoe
third row seat
bose speakers
running board
60.000 miles
brand new paid 38,500
asking 17,000

a bit out of the price range
but a great deal.

I guess no transprotation is why
I have been missing my Hannah!
Tell her we love and miss her!

[mercy]

SANTA in RICHLANDS

CC DANCE is hosting SANTA for the town of Richlands!
The Holiday Parade takes of from the High School at 5:30pm
and the streets of downtown are lined with people. The parade
is one of the last remaining night time parades! All the floats are
lit up and there are tons of horses and shriner cars! It is one
of my favorite things about this town!

Come by before the parade to here some wonderful Christmas tunes from the string section and yuletide carols from the children!
refreshments and Santa visits until 9pm!

[MovingMomma]

Thanks for the vehicle info! We found a van already, though. Not what we started out looking for, but DH is driving the Civic now & I have room for more babies.

The holiday parade is Sat. the 9th, right?

[NakedHousewife]

Did you guys know we're getting a Fresh Market in Wilmington this spring? :dance I LOVE that place!!

[NakedHousewife]

Oh, we don't have a :dance smiley. LOL I'm also sorry I didn't meet up with you all at the park. I go to school on Tuesdays. Next time!!

[weebitty2]

Just dropping in to say hi, mamas .. I'm FINALLY moving home! Ok .. well, at the end of January. I did the most growing of my growing up in Hubert and Northwoods I'm so glad to see there are MDC mamas in the area .. I can't wait to get the heck out of new england and go back home!

[MarineWife]

Should we try to set up another play time? I'm free all day Sundays through Tuesdays and Fridays and afternoons on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for now.

[mercy]

welcome back to the area

where are you going to be moving weebity2?
We love Richlands!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

[ColeysMama]

I would love to do another playdate. I start school this Friday (finally!!) and will be tied up mornings... and am looking for a part-time job evenings... so basically I'm free afternoons and that's it.

Also, I was wondering who here does selective/delayed or no vaxes, and which doc your kids see, if any. We switched out of NHCL last summer and our new family doc is cool with cosleeping, extended nursing, etc... but I haven't brought up the vax subject yet. Cole has gotten all his on schedule so far (except for 12 months, because we were out of town), but the more I research and think about it, the more I don't want him to have any more, at least not yet. I have the advantage that our doctor's office doesn't do shots, so I have to go to NHCL's shot clinic... so I may be able to avoid the issue entirely. But I might not. I'm supposed to schedule him for his 15-month well baby this month, and she wants copies of his growth chart and shot record from NHCL....

My original point: Who does selective or no vaxes? What doc do you see? Does it affect TriCare at all?

Side note: We are not planning to put Cole in public school or daycare, ever. We may homeschool, but he will probably go to a private Christian school.

I may XP part of this in the vax forum.

[MarineWife]

Marilyn ~ I do not vax at all anymore. My older ds was fully vaxed until we got to the 12 year booster stuff. He did not get that and I don't plan on having him get any more. My younger ds was vaxed up to 4 months. We see a family pracitioner in town. He's not supportive of not vaxing but he didn't dump us as patients when I told him that we don't vax. He talked to me about it once and has not brought up since. I wouldn't say that I get a great feeling from him but I don't have anything bad to say about him either. I don't know how he is about the other AP sort of stuff. That's not stuff I usually bring up with a doctor because I don't see it as medical stuff. I can PM you his name if you are interested.

I'm not sure I understand your question about anything affecting TriCare. If you are concerned that TriCare would come down on you for not vaxing, I have never heard anything from them about it. I don't think that you could lose your TriCare coverage because you are entitled to it, just like a military doc could not refuse to see you or your family because you don't vax because you are entitled to medical care from them.

I'd be happy to have a playdate at my home. It is kind of small. We are in a two-story cape cod on Camp Lejeune, if any of you know what those are like. I have a fenced in backyard and the kids are welcome to play in my ds' room and the living room. We also have a small playground a short walk away.

[ColeysMama]

Our doc only knows about extended bf, cosleeping, and so on because it came up in conversation. And I was trying to "feel her out," so to speak. When I went to the TriCare office to switch from NHCL, the only thing I knew was that I wasn't taking Cole back to the ped he'd been seeing. I had just EAS'd, so I had to get a new doc for me as well, under my DH's SSN. They gave me a list of names and told me to pick. Well, I picked mine based on the fact that she was the only woman on the list, and I'm not comfortable seeing a man. I picked a different one for Cole. When I got the TriCare cards, they had the same one down for both of us (the woman). Cole was due for a wbv, so I went ahead and scheduled it.

One of the first things she asked was if he was sleeping through the night and I decided to be honest and say, "I have no idea. He sleeps with me, so if he wakes up and nurses back to sleep, I'm not really aware of it. As long as I get to sleep, it's all good." And she proceeded to tell me how great that was and how she slept with all her kids and nursed them for 4 years.

She was also cool with him being little. He is usually somewhere around the 10% percentile, if that, and NCHL had diagnosed him with FTT and made us come in for weight checks every 2 weeks, write down everything he ate, etc. She couldn't even get an accurate length - he was too long for the tiny newborn scale they had. So she guessed. As for weight, she said he was obviously healthy and developing well, and if he was small, so be it. She (and the nurses) really didn't seem to care how much he weighed. That was a big thing for me, after all the ua violations we had to put up with at NHCL. I do not want to switch.... at all. Ever. But if it comes down to it, it's nice to know there's a doctor in town who would be okay with not vaxing. Or delaying. Or whatever we end up doing.

As for TriCare... I don't know what exactly I'm worried about, but I know the military is stupid about shots and so on. I remember a few years back when they were making people get anthrax vaccines against their will, and we got all kinds of shots when I was at boot camp. No choice, no waiver, nothing. When I was active duty, we were required to get flu shots every year, too. Obviously it's different for dependents, but I just want to be prepared in case anyone decides to make my life difficult. I'm sure if, God forbid, he ever had to go to the ER, it would be a big stink...

[violafemme]

Marilyn

We are on Tricare prime and it hasn't been an issue. we no longer vax and not one of our doctors has given us a hard time. I can tell sometimes they don't like it but one of the few things that's really great about using tricare prime on base is that they can't refuse to see you. period. Civillian docs can but military docs can't. It's kind of nice. They can't force you to do anything if you are a civillian.

DD has her first day of school tomorrow and the pre-school we found dind't even bat an eyelash at the vax stuff just told us to be sure all the paperwork was in order.

we have been fortunate so far, I hope you have the same experience.

MW

I'm always up for a playdate. Mondays and Fridays are best for us.

[MarineWife]

I ditto what Viola said about the military not being able to force you, as a civilian, to do anything and certianly not get vaxed. You did not have to follow all that FTT crap and going in every 2 weeks stuff. I'd like to know the name of your doc if you don't mind? Like I said, I can't complain about mine but I'm not overly impressed with him either.

[Danielle283]

Speaking of Doctors, my dd is due for a 2 year check up, but this will be the first time weve seen a Dr since moving here. We are both signed up for family practice at NHCL. I've heard some bad things about them and it's making me not want to even take her, or maybe just switch our PCM. Can anyone recommend a Dr. there?

[ColeysMama]

Recommend a doc at NHCL or out in town? I recommend my out-in-town doc all the time.... but have only seen one at NHCL, and didn't like him (he had this funny idea that since he went to medical school, he knew my child better than I did). I can PM you my doc's name if you want.

[MovingMomma]

We haven't seen any of the docs at family practice at NHCL, but I asked the CNM who used to do homebirths for a recommendation & she said Kewish, but I'm not sure if he's a ped or at family practice.

DD1 goes to a pediatric clinic out in town, & I haven't had any trouble with her PCM over vaxes. He is the neonatologist.

DD2 goes to a family practice next door to DD1's clinic, and he was fine on the vaxes also. He also didn't bat an eyelash about the homebirth or that she was finally seeing a dr for the first time at 2.5 months. His kids are homeschooled (it came up in relation to the vax thing) & he sounds way into that.

That isn't to say that both think no vax is a good idea. They both think the Hep B vax is crazy for a newborn, and that chicken pox is pretty non threatening if you get it as a child, but it's harder to find now & poses more risks if an adult contracts the disease. But they were both respectful of my decision not to give my girls even the vaxes that they thought were more necessary.

I have yet to find a dr who is anywhere near as supportive of breastfeeding as yours sounds, Marilyn! Please PM me her info!!! We need the tolerance for small children, also.

There is no way Tricare could mess w/your decisions on vaxing.

I'm up for a playdate! Next week Mon & Tues are free.

MW, I just figured out we go to playgroup together! Do you still want some maternity shirts? I'll bring them to a playdate or to playgroup next week...

La Leche League tomorrow, 9 am at our Savior Lutheran Church, 1115 Lejeune Blvd!

[ColeysMama]

I wish I could go to LLL... but, although I have 8:50 - 10:00 free, between classes, and was planning to stop by for part of it, we were in a car wreck on the way home from OH after Christmas, and I'm meeting with the insurance adjuster tomorrow at 9. Next month, perhaps. I've been gone for too long.

Shannon, I PM'd you that info.

As for playdates, I'm available next week in the afternoons. Monday and Wednesday, I'm off at 10:50, and Tues/Thurs, I get out at 11:50. Fridays I'm in class till 1:50, but if someone wanted to do something later in the day, that would work out.

[MarineWife]

Shannon. I hadn't looked at your name since I first signed on here so didn't make the connection either. Yeah, if you'd bring those shirts to playgroup next week, that would be great. I am going to come to LLL tomorrow morning if it kills me. I have an appointment with my MW at noon tomorrow so that should give me just enough time. I have an issue I need to discuss.

I went to a what I think could be a really fun thing for us to do indoors. In Snead's Ferry there is a roller skating rink that has Toddler Time every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 9:30 to noon, I think. It's $5.00 per child and they can bring their riding toys to ride around the rink. You can also get or bring skates if you want. I went as part of the Hampstead Mommies meetup group. I'm not so sure about the mom's in the group but the activity was fun. We were the only ones there and they were talking saying it's a shame that no one else takes advantage of it. I thought it would be fun if we all took over one time.

Ok, stupid question. What is NHCL?

Shannon ~ Are you saying your docs are cool on you not vaxing but not supportive about you breastfeeding? I haven't broached the breastfeeding or homebirthing stuff with the FP that we see. We did discuss me being pg and finding a doctor or MW when I went to him for my new patient appointment. I asked if he could recommend any MWs and he said he thought I would have to be high risk based on some of my previous health history. I didn't feel like discussing it, arguing with him about it so I just let it go.

I see a chiropractor who I've been thinking of asking about the vaxing and breastfeeding and such. I take my kids there for adjustments every so often. My chiro in HI was all for not vaxing and breastfeeding. He's the one I got the most info from about vaxes. The chiros here appear, at least, to be much more medically oriented, though. They wear white coats and have X-ray machines. My chiro in HI hardly ever had shoes on much less a white coat. LOL I don't know if the not vaxing thing is pretty much universal to chiros or not.

Have any of you seen the new Traditional Medicine place or whatever it's called on Western Boulevard. I'm going to use my XMas money to check it out. They traditional chinese acupuncture and reiki and do herbs and massage and all kinds of other stuff. It's kind of pricey, though.

[ColeysMama]

Originally Posted by MarineWife

Ok, stupid question. What is NHCL?

Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune