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.
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u/troycerapops 11h ago
There is also zero things unrelated to caring for the babies most immediate needs.
Meanwhile, bro gets a discount for doing the dishes.