Running out of patience

So I'm feeling my patience running very thin, with both my husband and son.   With my son, it all has to do with potty training.  We've been battling pooping on the potty for quite some time.  He finally seemed to "get it" a couple months ago, but we'll go through stints where he won't poop for a few days, and then will attempt to hold it in when he does have to go.  So we go through quite a few smears in the underpants and tons of time sitting on the potty with him battling me the whole way.  The thing is, he knows how to go poop on the potty, he has done it plenty of times.  I don't understand why it has to be such a struggle, and with me being on bedrest, it is totally stressing me out to have to deal with this.  My husband is no help - he just says "let him go in his pants."  I totally disagree with that strategy, and Nathan will tell us most of the time that he has to go.  Frustrating!!

I've been dealing with my insurance company on a few issues as well - tons of fun let me tell you!  Turns out that my maternal fetal medicine specialist is out-of-network, so they won't cover that visit, and the hospital with the NICU is also out-of-network.  Fantastic!  Of course, I'm hopeful that I won't have to deliver there, but it is a very real possibility that I might.  The insurance rep was very courteous and educated me on gap exceptions that can be obtained prior - but that means I have to make plenty of phone calls, etc. in order to coordinate this.  What is really frustrating is that I am enrolled in the Healthy Pregnancy program and have a case manager assigned by the insurance company since I'm high risk.  The case management program is supposed to assist with coordination of care - except that they don't.  What the hell?  I really don't need extra phone calls to brief an additional person on my pregnancy status if they aren't going to assist me with anything!  What exactly do they consider "coordinating care?"

Guess I should start the phone calls....