My son's birth cost over $22,000. Here's every dollar on our bill. - Business Insider

My midwife confirmed that my blood pressure had skyrocketed and that I was at risk for a condition called pre-eclampsia, which can be risky for moms and babies. So, a week before my due date, I went to the hospital for an induced delivery. Because I was in the hospital for several days between being induced and finally going home with my son, this birth would end up being more costly than we'd planned.

My blood pressure stayed stable when they were monitoring me, so nobody was in a huge rush, and emergency surgery wasn't necessary. The birth went as smoothly as I could have imagined, apart from some excessive post-delivery bleeding. My midwife ended up calling the OB on call to help stop my bleeding, which I'm sure brought additional cost into the hospital charges. Once I was stable, I was transferred to the postpartum unit, where both my son and I stayed two nights receiving care from the hospital nurses and one doctor.

The total we paid would have been cheaper if I hadn't had any complications — I could have delivered in the birth center without the hospital staff, and I would have gone home earlier .

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