Babies are expensive
Holy crap. We got the bill for Miles’s birth and surrounding activities, and little dude cost almost $15k, and he had a pretty uncomplicated birth. I don’t even think that includes the additional days he was in for the bilirubins treatment. Fortunately, insurance pays for most of it, though we do owe a small percentage that doesn’t seem so small when it all maths out. Dang, yo. I guess it’s a drop in the bucket compared to, say, college.
Still, as Denny pointed out, a homebirth would certainly be appealing if you didn’t have insurance.
Yeah, it’s incredible, isn’t it? Keston has come in around $58,000 all told, of which we have to pay about $7k or so. Not small, but sure glad we don’t have the whole thing.
My bill came in for Lucia and I. She was $7k. I labored entirely at home and didn’t even have any monitoring or antibiotics because when I arrived and layed down on the delivery table she was crowning (Yeah, I let things go a little too far). It wasn’t entirely my fault because when I went in the night before with contractions 3 min.s apart the nurse put the monitor on me wrong and sent me home with false labor and told me to keep my appointment for that week. Anyway… $7K for a “catch”, some stiches and recovery at Mercy.
Where do you think all those BMWs and Lexus SUVs are coming from, anyway?
$15K, really? I don’t think either of my boys were that much. Thank goodness for insurance, huh? 😉 I guess $15K is cheap compared to college and just raising them!
Speaking of college, have you and Denny set up anything for young Miles in the way of savings yet? A number of people here at our office are very high on this Iowa 529 Plan (so says Leah). It has a small load, but it’s pretty flexible as savings plans go. Just a heads up.
Wow, they are improving. I think it took almost a year for our bill for Daphne’s birth to reach us.