https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:50:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/small-town-small-country-woes-vent#post-497924 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:00:51 +0000 tororojo 497924@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>:( This is a sad story...I hope she gets better soon and that a miracle happens! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/small-town-small-country-woes-vent#post-497104 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:46:54 +0000 SugarplumsMom 497104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gracecat: My mom can ship it from the States and it comes pretty fast, but I'm still waiting on the confirmation from the large hospital pharmacy. DD is finally asleep, thank goodness. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/small-town-small-country-woes-vent#post-497103 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:44:32 +0000 gracecat 497103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man... That sucks. Can you get a friend in the u.s. toship stuff to you? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/small-town-small-country-woes-vent#post-497087 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:51:37 +0000 SugarplumsMom 497087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since moving to Sweden, one of the things I had the hardest time adjusting to is the low availability/limited variety of products available in the market. Sweden isn't a small country in size, but it is very sparsely populated. The stores here simply can't stock the variety of products found elsewhere. Even rural South Korea (I literally lived amongst the rice paddies for a year) had more variety than what's considered a large city in Sweden. It was shocking!</p> <p>Now 3 years later and I'm still shocked! For instance, why is it that no one carries baby formula for milk allergies when they apparently have a high percentage of babies with milk allergies? I'm not talking about grocery stores --- they don't even carry it. I'm talking about pharmacies, the only place that's supposed to carry it!</p> <p>So here I am, yet again waiting to see if the pharmacy in the largest hospital in the county carries a product that I can buy at Wal-Mart and Amazon.com back home. And if they don't carry it, we have to find out how long it'll take for them to order it because having my mom buy it from the neighborhood Wal-Mart and shipping it here might actually be faster!</p> <p>And all the while my little girl is itching her face off and crying :( And BTW, hydrocortizone 1% can only be given by prescription here and I had to convince the doctor to give it for her body. Sob. </p>