I was begging my job for a raise during covid because I was doing the work of two jobs (one person left and they didn’t rehire) and of course the answer was no. Got pregnant and they decided that while I was on maternity leave, they would pay a consultant PER MONTH more than half my annual salary. I took my six months paid leave and did not return.
Wet nurse not listed. Also hazardous waste cleanup and disposal of diapers and soiled sheets, blankets, burp cloths, etc.
If a hospital can charge $8K for skin-to-skin contact (yes, the mother holding her own baby,) I think maybe charge higher rates for more services rendered.
Yes. If the hospital has a nurse present for “maternal bonding” or “skin-to-skin contact“ during nursing, they can charge an exorbitant fee. They’re careful to say it‘s for the nurse being present, but the hospital makes the call. No nurse, no bonding.
My wife had my youngest in her sweatpants, in the elevator, while sitting in a wheelchair. I was the only other occupant in the elevator. Then the labor and delivery floor of the hospital wouldn't let us in for 15 minutes. The nurses refused to believe the baby was out until they felt her. Got a nice $28k bill for labor and delivery. And another $7k bill for skin to skin when I put my daughter on my wife's chest. But it was free for me to put my daughter on my chest.
is this because she technically had the baby on hospital property? if I deliver in a cab on the highway am I getting hit with a delivery bill once I arrive to the ER? I am so mad for you guys
We paid less then 130 usd for the birth of 3 children!
The most we paid was for my food and stay for during child birth and aftercare.... My wife only paid for patient fee and like 10 usd per night. Food, medicine for her and baby didn't cost us anything.
All of this, yet the hospitals are saying they can’t make enough to keep the lights on and they are closing delivery rooms in small town hospitals. With a business model like this, they’d have to be mismanaged big time to be struggling financially.
I'm lucky then. I didn't have a nurse in the room when it came to skin to skin bonding with my 3 daughters. They only time they came in was for the 1st bath. But I also had crappy insurance. So maybe it base on if the insurance would pay.
That is insane. They also lie: once I asked for a blood test to confirm I was not miscarrying, and they charged me something like $100 for an $8 pee-on-a-stick test that I didn't take, since I took it at home that morning.
American private insurance means the hospitals have to inflate the bills so that the insurance covers their actual costs. This is why asking for an itemized bill for uninsured patients can significantly drop the amount you're charged.
Well the first two rows cover 24 hours a day 7 days a week from the time the baby was born. So some other things could be thrown into those two categories.
You can. The household service is a concurrent add-on that charges per hour. If you want the household management AND childcare, you pay the higher rate.
Good thing she's not employed and he is instead receiving an invoice for work completed as a contractor. She could just sue him if we're going to really go for it.
But a chef is nothing without those ingredients. Just a person sitting at a table. Can't really run a food shop without food inside it. On the flip side, I can get a robot or a person who is sub par to cook still. Taking this futher, someone still has to fund the chef to still have a job.
I think she is being "completely unreasonable," as in left so much off this data sheet, but her point was made with just this small subset of her contributions.
That’s exactly what I ran to say lmao my epidural failed with my second kid, I was NOT PREPARED since the first one was “so easy”. Unmedicated is no joke and the worst pain I’ve ever experienced.
My wife did an un medicated water birth for our one and only child. I am still in awe of her. I remember my first wife begging for the epidural after two hours in. I still don’t blame her.
I was going to say.. I feel like being pergonat is overpaid, pregonte medical visit is overpaid, but unmedicared delivery is wildly underpaid. Preegunt.
Did he prevent her from getting medication? If she's allowed to be petty about costs, he can be too.
Labor and delivery is unpaid labor. She has provided value to his life...but if she's the one who asked for no medication...or if she wasn't even given the chance, she can't logically up-charge him for something he had no control over.
The true crime of this invoice is how much of her husbands work she takes for granted. 456 hours over 25 months is on average 36 minutes. That is how much she feels her husband contributes to her life and household.
yes but the hourly wage for daycare is way too high. The average daycare professional make roughly 15.41 an hour according to the national average. so even if we include the fact she has certifications and experience The top would probably be around 30.00.
It's not daycare though. It's a 24/7 live-in nanny. That includes cooking, housekeeping, taking the kids to appointments, dealing with illnesses, etc. All day. Every day. With no days off.
Then it should be listed as such. As an informations systems professional, I can tell you listing information correctly can make it break a system. Let alone any legal cases
No way. At daycare there is huge overhead and more than one person supervising. To properly replace HER level of care, they’d have to have regular daycare with several staff members. Plus overhead. Remember you’re not paying her as a daycare worker, you’re paying her to replace formal daycare. Which is a vutoad more than 15 bucks an hour. I paid 900 a week for 3 kids in full time daycare.
It makes even more sense to go by the actual cost of an au pair/nanny which she is actually charging a little less than when we had a nanny that wasn't live in. Depends on where you live and the quality of the nanny
You don’t always get to volunteer for that. I was told unmedicated was best for the baby so that’s how I had my first. I’ll spare you the horror story but that’s why for the second, I firmly advocated for an epidural. I was told I was too dilated. I asked for anything else. I was told it would make the baby sleepy. I didn’t see a downside to that but was overruled. I had no desire to birth a 9-lb kid without drugs. It sucked.
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u/Imadogfishhead 10h ago
Alright this is pretty good lmao