Hospital labor

I never ever paid for child labor. It must be the type of insurance they have. I don't even pay for prenatal visits.

@trice it depends on the state. When I was in NY I didn't pay for anything. Insurance in Florida is totally different. I have co-pay for prenatal visits and a hospital stay charge when I give birth.

With my first, I had to pay about $2000. I did have an emergency c-section though, so that obviously raised the price. It depends on your insurance, if you've met your deductible and out of pocket max, etc. That's the benefit to having our babies in October, we're probably close to hitting our deductibles. My first was born in February, so it had just reset the month before 🫠

My sister had her baby in California, vaginal birth with epidural. Her co-pay was 6k

It depends on your state and insurance. My insurance has an online calculator for how much birth will cost through our hospital. Mine says 11k, but that we’d owe $500 after insurance pays their portion.

I would call your insurance and ask.

@Makelle agree. Call the insurance company and the hospital, too. I heard hospitals have a walkout rate. Look into it.

My OBGYN contacted my insurance for me and figured out how much I would need to pay. In total it's about $1700. I'm making payments at each OB visit so that I don't owe anything after I give birth.

My copay was $250 Aetna PPO in TX

It depends on your state and type of insurance. My state gives insurance to any pregnancy woman so they billed my work insurance then state insurance and I paid nothing. This time, I don't have any insurance besides my husband's so I'm expecting it to be different..

I think it soley depends on what state and what your hospitals charge. I'm on my 4th each of my other 3 births were 4k each I didn't have to pay a dime insurance covered but I was in and out in less than 24hrss from time of labor to birth as soon as I felt good enough to I discharged us and went home so I'm not sure if that played part in why it was only 4k or not

Our total after our first was around $7,000 after insurance. I had an epidural, and a forceps delivery that had a large charge as a "surgery," and then my son spent around 8 hours in the nicu, which was also pretty expensive.

it depends on if your insurance covers it or if you even have insurance or not