by B.R. » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:36 pm
EM,
I have to agree with Kelly - you really need the full-time job you have right now. Labor/delivery can get expensive pretty quick without insurance, especially if things go awry with the delivery. I had student health insurance when I had my first baby, and it didn't even come close to covering the cost of the delivery and follow-up complications, leaving us in serious debt that took at least a year to pull ourselves out from under. Luckily, we had some insurance coverage, otherwise we would have been in serious trouble.
So, of course, this is only my humble opinion, but it just sounds too risky to let this post-doc position slide right now with all of this uncertainty in your life.