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Costs of your childrens birth...
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I am curious as I add up all of my claims to insurance how much all of your births cost. Including the one night I was admitted to L&D for preterm labor and the 2 times of being in triage for pre-term contractions, Ava's birth, dr appointments, 20 weeks scan, and nuchal scan...my bills were over $37,595.00. Thank goodness for double insurance, I didn't pay a cent. But I can not imagine what some other people births cost that had other complications, etc.
Also this did not include any of Ava's bills....hers were over $1200
Anyhow, I am bored and curiousity is getting to me 
Also where we live probably is part of it... I am in the Seattle area.
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MY last c-sec and hospital stay 4 years ago was 12,550.
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 mykids:
MY last c-sec and hospital stay 4 years ago was 12,550.
Isn't it crazy how much times have changed? When I had Madison and Evan I think $6000-$10000 was normal. Just my hospital stay was $11000 with Ava. My dr charged me $3200. Not to mention several other charges.
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With DS1 it was around $20,000. I was only there one night but he was in the NICU for 2 days and I had a D&C due to ruptured placenta (a$$hole doctor who yanked on the cord to pull it out)...
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My last home birth cost $3800. This included all my midwife appointments, and she spent at least an hour with me every time and came to our house a few times before and after the birth as well as for the birth. I had to pay for my 20-week u/s separately. I think that was $250. My other home birth was $2500. Same midwife, same services, but she raised her prices since six years ago. My first birth was at a free-standing birth center and was $3800 including prenatal care. All of this was out-of-pocket because insurance won't cover home birth or a birth center. It makes me so angry that they would pay $40,000 for a hospital birth, but they won't pay one tenth of that for a home birth which has been proven to be just as safe. Actually, insurance "accidentally" paid $1600 toward J's birth. We submitted bills and they paid them in part and then later they changed their minds and tried to force us to return the money. We appealed and eventually won.
Mom2RJA
 R, 2000
J, 2003
 A, 2009
MS/IUI 10/2/07 at GIVF, natural cycle, 1 follicle, 94.7% sort purity, BFN
MS/IUI 8/25/08 at HRC, Clomid + Ovidrel, 3 follicles, 92.99% sort purity, BFP!!!
Beta #1 on 9/9 (15 dpo): 153, Beta #2 on 9/11 (17 dpo): 395
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My insurance covered my prenatals up to 28 weeks when I quit going and did my own pre-natal care, so no cost for that. So, we just had the cost of the homebirth supplies, which was about $30 (I already had the birth pool from when I was pg with DD and didn't get to use it because she came too fast at the hospital!)
Mom2RJA: insurance won't cover home birth or a birth center. It makes me so angry that they would pay $40,000 for a hospital birth, but they won't pay one tenth of that for a home birth which has been proven to be just as safe.
Don't get me started
"If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with...If left alone, just courage and patience are required" -Grantly Dick-Read, MD "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs" -Thomas Jefferson
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Danya
France
Joined 06-17-2009
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I am in France and normally it would be 100% free however I paid 3000 euros for a private hospital and my own room in the hosptial for 7 nights with telephone etc and additional care after coming home for a week.
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BananaPants:
charliecats:
LOL yup, I think I paid like 20$ for tv and phone.
LOL!
Even cheaper when you do it at home in Canada!
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About $150 per pregnancy/delivery, even the Triplets delivery (they had no NICU time). I have always had wonderful insurance coverage no complaints from me 
Tina
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I'm afraid to find out..  Especially with being stuck in the hospital, and having ten million lab tests - those seem to be outrageously priced 
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Tina, I just have to comment that it is amazing that your triplets had no NICU time! Wow!
Mom2RJA
R, 2000
J, 2003
A, 2009
MS/IUI 10/2/07 at GIVF, natural cycle, 1 follicle, 94.7% sort purity, BFN
MS/IUI 8/25/08 at HRC, Clomid + Ovidrel, 3 follicles, 92.99% sort purity, BFP!!!
Beta #1 on 9/9 (15 dpo): 153, Beta #2 on 9/11 (17 dpo): 395
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*cough, cough* Including hospitalizations, home health care, TPN, lots of appointments, lots of medications, and ending with a c-section and two-week NICU stay...
(around $250,000)
If we didn't have insurance, I would have had to terminate the pregnancy. Case closed.
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." -Patti Smith
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lissa: If we didn't have insurance, I would have had to terminate the pregnancy.
That makes me so sad. I really hope our country can get to a point where nobody ever has to face that situation.
Mom2RJA
R, 2000
J, 2003
A, 2009
MS/IUI 10/2/07 at GIVF, natural cycle, 1 follicle, 94.7% sort purity, BFN
MS/IUI 8/25/08 at HRC, Clomid + Ovidrel, 3 follicles, 92.99% sort purity, BFP!!!
Beta #1 on 9/9 (15 dpo): 153, Beta #2 on 9/11 (17 dpo): 395
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