Erin and Chad: Fifty Shades of Pink

[BitterApple]

Oooof. Carlin must be pissed. Josie's pregnancy announcement reel got 41k likes and 1100 comments, while Carlin's snorkeling reel only pulled 8k and 110. I guess that's Influencer life. One second you're hot, the next you're day old bread. 

 

Edited April 28 by BitterApple

[andromeda331]

12 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Oooof. Carlin must be pissed. Josie's pregnancy announcement reel got 41k likes and 1100 comments, while Carlin's snorkeling reel only pulled 8k and 110. I guess that's Influencer life. One second you're hot, the next you're day old bread. 

It's probably about how long the attention she got from her family lasted too. 

[BetyBee]

6 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

It's probably about how long the attention she got from her family lasted too. 

Which usually resulted in Carlin being louder in show days. Well, actually in current days as well!

[Meow Mix]

Erin and Chad are idiots.  That is all.

[ozziemom]

Gender reveal, it’s another boy. Ho hum.

[BitterApple]

Poor Carles. That room of his is about to get crowded. 

[Salacious Kitty]

Thank goodness it wasn't another girl. Nowhere to put it. 

[65mickey]

As long as there are closets Erin will have a place for a baby and a bassinet. She will pretty up the closet and tell everyone how happy the baby is in her/his own space.  

[Heathen]

11 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Thank goodness it wasn't another girl. Nowhere to put it. 

Like that would ever stop them. That baby train isn't stopping until menopause. 

[Absolom]

1 hour ago, Heathen said:

Like that would ever stop them. That baby train isn't stopping until menopause. 

Menopause may well be early for Erin.  I can hope. With Chad's lack of paying work and their apparent refusal to have a mortgage, they really shouldn't bring any more children into the mix.  Yeah, I know preaching to the choir, but they really need to stop.

[FizzyPuff]

I just can’t believe that Erin’s 1/4 ovary is still going strong. Chad needs to pull out or something.

Does anyone know how many siblings Chad has? 

[Heathen]

2 hours ago, FizzyPuff said:

I just can’t believe that Erin’s 1/4 ovary is still going strong. Chad needs to pull out or something.

Does anyone know how many siblings Chad has? 

It's going strong with the help of fertility drugs. Or she lied about the fraction of an ovary in the first place. 

Chad has nine siblings, including Tabitha, who was married off to a convicted rapist. One brother has five children. None of the other siblings has more than three. 

[Salacious Kitty]

Chad is the oldest of 7 or 8. Too lazy to look up the exact number, could be up to 10. I think they're all married off. 

[Notabug]

There are more than enough eggs in even a fraction of an ovary to get the job done.i

At puberty, the average woman has about 400,000 eggs.  So, even with just a quarter of one ovary, Erin has tens of thousands just hanging around waiting for ovulation. Plenty of women in her situation have normal fertility.

[lookeyloo]

Chad doesn't want to pull out. They don't want to limit their fertility/family. This is all their choice. Would it be my choice? No.  They are not on public assistance as far as we know. Of course my issue with them is their odious beliefs in pretty packages.  And they are passing that along to their children to be perpetuated. Undereducated/ biased/etc.  That's the part I don't like. 

[65mickey]

I'm willing to bet they are either on Medicaid, the Chip program or the Affordable Care Act. But they would never own up to this. There is no hospital that I know of that would let Chad pay off the bill in trade like Gill used to do. 

Every. time that Erin says "we want to build," I want to scream that is never going to happen with you and Chad keeping up the baby train. 

[Notabug]

49 minutes ago, 65mickey said:

I'm willing to bet they are either on Medicaid, the Chip program or the Affordable Care Act. But they would never own up to this. There is no hospital that I know of that would let Chad pay off the bill in trade like Gill used to do. 

Every. time that Erin says "we want to build," I want to scream that is never going to happen with you and Chad keeping up the baby train. 

I agree that it is very likely that they are receiving Medicaid via Healthy Start which is meant to insure pregnant women and children up to age 4.  Any hospital/provider is going to expect them to sign up for any healthcare they are eligible to receive or to pay up front.  No way they've got enough money to afford to pay out of pocket for prenatal care and delivery and no way a provider is going to care for them without payment being guaranteed when they are eligible for government coverage.

[Heathen]

48 minutes ago, 65mickey said:

I'm willing to bet they are either on Medicaid, the Chip program or the Affordable Care Act. But they would never own up to this. There is no hospital that I know of that would let Chad pay off the bill in trade like Gill used to do. 

Every. time that Erin says "we want to build," I want to scream that is never going to happen with you and Chad keeping up the baby train. 

The Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare is just a marketplace that would allow them to purchase insurance, and they'd likely get subsidies too. Florida didn't expand Medicaid, so Erin might be on it because she's pregnant, but I don't know if Chad and the six kids would be eligible.  

My guess is Chad and Erin will buy property and build a house right around the time I marry a duke, get a tiara, and move to a manor house. 

Some info about Florida's Medicaid Healthy Start: 

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Healthy Start is a free home visiting program that provides education and care coordination to pregnant women and families of children under the age of three. The goal of the program is to lower risk factors associated with preterm birth, low birth weight, infant mortality and poor developmental outcomes.

Healthy Start offers:

Home visitation.

Prenatal and parenting education.

Interconception education including reproductive planning.

Stress management education.

Care coordination to help families learn about resources available in the community and assistance in accessing those services.

https://www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/childrens-health/healthy-start/index.html