Cost of birth

and i guess that doesn't include medication either such as epidural, laughing gas, etc. like are you broke after having a baby

i met my insurance deductible before i gave birth so i didn't pay anything but my insurance was charged around 20k

I my first was born in Canadá 😭 but my second will be born in Mex. Cost will be about $2460 CAD

Most people with insurance (especially low income insurance) do not pay for birth in the states.

@Madeline OMG that's CRAZY 🫠 for us everything is free including ultrasounds and everything.. the only thing you have to pay out of pocket is if the doctor prescribes you any medication but most people have insurance for that and it covers at least 80% also when u give birth they give you the option of which room you want. the standard room is free which u have to share with 3 other moms or you pay for a single room or a shared 2 people room but that's the only thing that ever costed money. or if u want an early gender blood test u have to pay out of pocket

at my hospital they only had private rooms for moms. i didn't have to pay anything for myself because of my deductible being met, but i did pay $1,000 for my baby's care while there

Free in Australia, a few ultrasounds you'll have to pay for though.

We had a home birth with both babies. Both midwives charged $5,000, but I got a superbill, and insurance gave us 3,500 back.

My hospital births were 20k

And just for funsies. We just bankrupted out to 550k of medical debt

Wow. Didn’t know having babies were that expensive omg

@SquishyMommy1 per child ? 😳

I think I payed like 3k for my sons birth mostly because of the epidural. For my daughter it was free because I was on the low income state insurance

I'm in Australia. My first was a vaginal birth, I paid $9 for parking. My second was a caesarean, with a nicu stay and 2 hospital transfers I paid $9 for parking. But socialism is bad... 🙄

Free in the UK apart from the parking! Lol

My hospital bill was 26k and my son's was 4k. That includes the surgery, hospital stay, meds while there, spinal block, everything. I had a c section and we were there from Wednesday-Saturday. My insurance covered everything, they also covered all my prenatal visits, my MFM appointments, Ultrasounds (12 bc I had growth scans), the NIPT test, and the meds for after I was discharged. Here we don't share rooms, we have all private rooms. The only thing I paid for was a boutique ultrasound visit because I wanted a 3D ultrasound, but my mom actually paid for it as a Christmas gift and it was only $85

Gal…you have no idea. Of where I am didn’t have this insurance called Medicaid that is health insurance for low income people to actually go to the doctor and give birth with almost 99% covered…the bill would be well over 30k dollars and that includes insurance paid by our work or the marketplace. I couldn’t even afford to get an ultrasound without Medicaid with my old insurance. And my deductible was 3k till it said it “covered” everything when it didn’t. I still had bill after bill for what services they decided wasn’t covered for them.

Australia. Probably parking was all I paid for 💁🏻‍♀️ ultrasounds are free for up to the 12w mark so I got only one US and that’s free. Didn’t pay for the rest couldn’t be bothered. (Didn’t wanna find gender either) One birth I shared w 1 other, 2 births I had a whole single room all to myself it was great. (Because I had lots of visitors she would’ve been annoyed w all my family 😬)

Before insurance: the childbirth (c section) was about $20,000, baby in NICU for 3 days was $17,000. This doesn’t include any of the appointments or blood tests prior to giving birth.

With insurance the bill for the hospital stay and c section was $11,000. Still haven’t paid it teehee

I had excellent platinum level insurance, met my deductible, and still paid over $5000 and my labor was not at all complicated. This was just hospital bills for the birth and did not include any of my prenatal care.

@Victoria~ what the f?! What insurance do you have? How is this possible and why do y’all have babies lmao

@Jody for 3 of them. Yes.

@Monét united lol the one who’s ceo just got shot for overcharging people. Second baby was an accident but I wanted to keep her

@Victoria~ ahhh I mean UHC does really suck 😭😭😭 Also I don’t mean why do you have kids fr but I’d be stressed about that bill for the whole 9 mos 😂😂

Both of my kids were around $2,500 for the birth. That does not include all the previous visits.

8k for 4 days inpatient, my daughter never went to NICU. I had a failed pitocin induction with an epidural and c/s. The epidural wasn’t covered by my insurance. My husband and I even work at the hospital that I delivered at.

I don't remember exactly, but my youngest two were probably a few thousand each after insurance. My youngest was born in January, so we hadn't met our deductible yet, so I probably paid more for her delivery. With my oldest I was on medicaid (government insurance) so didn't pay anything but I was induced, ended up having an emergency c-section and a 5 day hospital stay. I think the total was around 35k. I don't know how people who don't have insurance pay for it. It's crazy.

I have a $8k bill for my last childbirth. Making payments 😆

I'm on Medicaid, which is basically free health insurance for low-income families in the US. All of my prenatal appointments, birth and postpartum hospitalizations/appointments have been covered fully thankfully. Giving birth costs so much in the US, so I wouldn't have been able to afford anything whatsoever.

to have my son i got a bill (and this was not including prenatal care this was JUST our hospital stay for me giving birth) was $56k

Well I’m on ahcccs which is a Medicaid (free gov insurance) plan. And I always have been so my first 2 I paid nothing for, including all prenatal care and my 3rd is and will be the same 🤷🏼‍♀️ but I know it’s AT LEAST 20k without insurance in the US! 😳

Mine was a special case as both myself and my son had extended hospital stays. Just his bill alone was over $543k. Fortunately at the time I was on Medicaid so I had no out of pocket cost for him or myself (my own bill was around $30-40k though I can't remember exactly how much).

I’m currently $20k in medical debt

I have good insurance so I think with my out of pocket max and deductible it will be close to $2k. My last one was a little less. My first was around $5k altogether I think? The anesthesia bill was over $4k but I called and got it reduced almost half and spread out into payments. It's a mess here (US).

I’m currently in the US and with my first child I had min level insurance but, was private Thur my parents as I was 18 at the time hers ended up being about 14/15 thousand we had a family plan and 3-4 thousand was family deductible that’s not including prenatal care. For the second I had my own insurance through work and it was 4-5 thousand as I had private insurance through work not including prenatal care still making payments on that 1,000 bill for my second . For my third I was working for a union had good insurance so it was only a couple thousand after insurance not including prenatal care .With the 4th child with the coast of living going up we finally qualify as a married couple for Medicaid so everything will be paid for thankfully. As it’s supper hard to qualify if u have two incomes coming in the house hold. But, once either of us make or 15-16 an hr I’ll drop so thankfully I’ll have it long enough for delivery but, then will have to go back to private insurance.

i had no pain meds & a very easy birth in the states. i do have insurance so i don’t have to pay, but my insurance was charged $39,000ish.

My insurance has a yearly out of pocket maximum of 6,000 for the whole family. I had twins that have an extended stay in the NICU so I expect to pay 6k total for all 3 of us. I will need a payment plan. 🫤

I have insurance it costed me $250 for everything

Absolutely nothing - 🇦🇺

In UK it's also free, but my home country Latvia it would be around 1k and if you want homebirth it's another 1k 🙈

Mine was 35k for 2 days in hospital paid 5k after insurance

Free in the UK

omg ya'll this is crazyyy so from what i gather if you don't have insurance then you're going broke from having a baby 😪

even after insurance tho it's expensive cause you have to pay deductables... you basically have to financially plan and save up to have a kid..

lol yea living in the US sucks because if u get pregnant you’re gonna go into debt just to have a baby, you can’t get an abortion in a bunch of the states, some states are trying to limit sex education, you can’t get birth control without a prescription lol so they’re basically like setting you up for failure

My first 2 birth I was on my work health care and I owed 2k and 1k my insurances didn’t cover. My third I was on Medicare and it covered everything.

@Jillian it does hurt your credit. Just not after 7 years

@Jillian yeah I got stuck with a $30k bill AFTER insurance and they billed me from a million different people and places so some of the bills slipped through and hit my credit pretty bad unfortunately

wow im actually shocked i had no idea how life was outside of Canada for people who actually have to pay, it's definitely not "living the dream" but yet again here we're all living paycheck to paycheck cause we pay so much tax for healthcare and everything else lol