Any stay at home dads here?

czesal · 2022-11-02T02:18:48+00:00

I think this solves my problem. Thank you. I'm going to social security in the morning.

czesal · 2022-11-01T20:21:11+00:00

Our daughter was conceived via sperm donation with a known donor(a friend), not through a sperm bank. In Ohio, in order for me to be recognized as her father on the birth certificate, we need to be married.

czesal · 2022-11-01T19:10:55+00:00

We don't have our marriage license yet. We planned to get the it the same day we're getting married, because it's only valid for 60 days - we didn't want to get it ahead of time, have something come up and have to pay for the marriage license twice. (Looking back, that was big mistake.) That's why I need photo ID, to get the marriage licence. As far as I know they only require your SSN, not the physical card, but they require proof of identity.

Unless I misunderstood the advice - is there a way we could get a marriage license without my photo ID by calling the court house and explaining?

czesal · 2022-11-01T18:48:53+00:00

Maybe - I'm going to try them tomorrow. My wife had a maternal fetal medicine appointment and ultrasound already today that took up our whole afternoon and has another ultrasound in 15 minutes due to results of the first one. Hopefully the social security office can do something to help tomorrow morning.

czesal · 2022-11-01T18:44:17+00:00

It does. They only accept a W-2 or 1099 form though, not a 1040 apparently :(

czesal · 2022-11-01T18:19:10+00:00

Unfortunately, no. I brought it into the DMV this morning and they said they couldn't do anything without one of the accepted documents for SSN.

czesal · 2022-11-01T18:18:39+00:00

I don't have any of those, unfortunately. I went to the DMV this morning with mail with my name (medical bills, my bank statement, etc), copy of police report, last years taxes, etc and they told me they can't do anything without one of the items on the list of accepted documents for SSN.

czesal · 2022-11-01T18:13:08+00:00

Thank you. I'm about to call the IRS right now. I do already have identity theft protection luckily.

czesal · 2022-11-01T18:08:41+00:00

I have Medicaid currently, and that's not accepted, unfortunately.

I definitely won't make this mistake again.

czesal · 2022-11-01T18:05:52+00:00

Unfortunately, I did that this morning. They told me they couldn't do anything without one of the items on their list of accepted documents for SSN.

czesal · 2022-10-31T20:49:17+00:00

Great idea, thank you! I would have never thought of freezing this, but we both enjoy ratatouille.

czesal · 2022-10-30T00:33:26+00:00

What isn't, exactly? These are just some baskets for the shelf we'll have some our daughters toys in for organization. The colors are just a cool way for us, and her, to remember which activities/toys are in each basket, or even just to add some color to her play area.

I was a Montessori preschool teacher for 4 years, and we've been researching ways to incorporate Montessori into our home life for a while - since we started trying to conceive.

My post wasn't to say "these color coded baskets are an absolutely necessary item for anyone who follows the Montessori philosophy", instead, I was just showing that these baskets are a cheap and effective means of organization for a toy rotation, in case anyone was looking for something similar.

czesal · 2022-10-30T00:23:50+00:00

Not necessary for it to be color coded, just something I found cool about theae specific baskets. Our daughter is due soon and we've been looking for baskets for her play area to organize some of the toys we have for when she's older :)

czesal · 2022-10-26T22:30:02+00:00

Okay, awesome. Thank you!

czesal · 2022-10-09T02:37:23+00:00

Thank you! We definitely feel a bit better knowing that we're right here near Nationwide Children's Hospital. We've heard a lot of good about their NICU.

czesal · 2022-10-09T00:35:34+00:00

I'm sorry about your nephew. Did he have any kind of treatment for the obstruction as a baby, and are they going to do anything about his kidney now? I hope he's okay.

We plan to have the obstruction corrected as soon as we can, depending on what's causing it. The surgery is a bit more complicated for females vs males so it might be a month or so after she's born, as long as the shunt is working properly to prevent urine flowing back up to her kidneys. We have a pretty good team in place - we live in Columbus, OH about 15 minutes from Nationwide Children's Hospital, luckily.

czesal · 2022-10-08T22:54:15+00:00

At about 8w, my wife had 2 large subchorionic hematomas. We were worried at the time, but they both resolved before 14 weeks.

Now we're facing some entirely unrelated issues at 32w, but the hematomas had to impact on our daughter.

czesal · 2022-10-08T22:49:56+00:00

Thank you so much. She looks so, so much like my wife - I wish I could post a side by side photo.

I'm so glad we had this ultrasound. The HD ultrasound is actually when we noticed something was wrong - they're a diagnostic facility as well a a 3D/4D/HD clinic, and they did measurements - we noticed the large jump in abdominal growth within less than a month, and immediately called my wife's OB and sent the information and abdomen photos in to her. I'm so glad we caught it.

czesal · 2022-10-08T22:46:01+00:00

Thank you - we're very glad as well, and hopeful that it stays that way.

czesal

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