My son's birth cost over $22,000 because of complications. Here's every dollar on our bill.
Courtesy Ashley Abramson
- I planned to give birth to my second son at a birth center in Minneapolis, but when my blood pressure skyrocketed a week before my due date, I had to be induced in the hospital.
- With hospital fees plus the cost of my midwife (who delivered my baby), the price of the birth was over $22,000.
- Thanks to my husband's health insurance, we only paid about $2,800.
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A week before my son's due date, I woke up and looked down at my feet — they were about twice their usual size. A lightbulb went off in my mind — I knew swelling was a sign of water retention, and that I needed to call my midwife right away.
This was my second pregnancy, and for both I had seen midwives and planned to give birth in a birth center across the street from a hospital in Minneapolis. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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