I just started at Tsan Yuk too and last week i just bought a pack of disposable cups from the japan home centre place and waited til i got there to pee and then put it inside a plastic bag. You always have to wait when you get there anyway so there's enough time to do the sample while waiting for your BP and weight measurements to be done. So i suggest the paper cup!
Urine sample for public hospital checkup
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Ok cool, will be great if I don't have to carry my pee around in my habdbag!!!Just one last thing; they said I should take the sample in the morning before I eat anything... Does this not really matter then?
It can make a SLIGHT difference as the urine from the morning is more concentrated--that's why they ask you to take pregnancy tests in the morning because the HCG will be in a more concentrated form as you've gone many hours without using the toilette. But....this is only really an issue if you're at extreme risk for things like gestational diabetes. Mostly it won't matter at all so don't worry about it. The morning urine is the "most accurate." In the United States they don't start testing your urine until you're something like 6-8-months-pregnant and here they generally do it at every appointment so...
Ok cool, will be great if I don't have to carry my pee around in my habdbag!!!
In the private hospital I was also going to - I used to alternative check-ups - they would just give me the strips to pee on with a clear small plastic bag and ask me to put the strip in it after I peed. So I guess wasn't that important that it was a first pee, though maybe first pee is more accurate. I'm guessing most working women would not be carrying their pee around in their bags all day.
Hi Charade, do you have an idea of how much all of the prenatal checks cost privately? Just an approximate.... I can't get insurance so deciding whether to go private and just pay for it for #2. I know the approximate costs of delivery, but not everything leading up to it...
= sorry to hijack the thread TraceyHat...
They were even more particular at the clinic in Shatin- had to be the SECOND pee of the morning before you have eaten anything. I brought the pee with me in a glass jar that used to have those bird's nest drink in it and it was perfect sized. Tiny little jar. And put it inside a ziplock bag too. And still HATED bringing it with me. THe worst was when I had appointments in the afternoon and had to carry it to work with me all day! Not like anyone knew, but I just felt gross.
They cost about 600-1000$ a check-up with ultrasound depending on which private doctor you see. For my first baby, I went to Dr. Eric Lee in Central (1000$) and a female doctor in Tseung Kwan O (HK$600). For my second, I was planning to go private so saw Dr. Jimmy Mak at Baptist Hospital (1000$). However, with both babies, I did the public antenatal check-ups too. And I got all the free testing I could get done in the public system. For my second baby delivered in Jan 2012, I paid for the Down's Screening privately (1500$ I think... not sure why since it's offered free in public; I was kind of keen to get the results asap) and the 20-week morphology scan (3000$ in private, no longer offered free in public unless high risk). I was much more chilled out for my second baby and spaced out the visits a lot.
If you want an exact figure of the total cost of antenatal check-ups, I'm going to be doing my bills for insurance so can PM you the figure once I'm done.
I didn't deliver private in the end because my husband was being very iffy due to job stress and I ended up having an emergency c-sec, and had decided that if I had an emergency would go public because the costs in private would jsut spiral out of control for an unplanned thing. I was pretty happy with my experience at public the second time around, maybe because I knew what to expect, plus it was a c-sec so I wasn't so exhausted. I'd suggest if you have financial constraints keep the public option open anyway because really you don't want the stress of counting the costs during your delivery.
Liquorice, just realised... my job insurance covers upto 10,000$ for a natural delivery. And for my first baby, my claim was around 9000$, with a LOT of antenatal visits because I used to run to the doc every couple of weeks in the first trimester because I was spotting. I had the morphology scan public for my first so you can add 3000$ to that since public won't offer that free now. So, you can expect 10,000$ - 15,000$ (to be safe) for the antenatal part. For both though, I did the initial blood tests in the public system though.