Is anyone willing to share what their total hospital expenses were, from prenatal through birth? I'm trying to decide if having a home birth is financially a good idea but have nothing to compare the cost to. Wondering specifically what you owed after insurance as we do have coverage. Posting incognito as we haven't announced the pregnancy yet!
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I went completely unmedicated with my 2 hospital births so it was just me getting there, having a baby, and leaving for reference. Those were around $10,000. I had a birth center birth that was a smidge over $5000- $4000 for the birth and $1000 for my prenatal visits and this time I’ll be having a homebirth which is $4000 but I decided to have a doula as well which is another $1000.
@Mackenzie so 10,000 for the hospital birth? Was that with or without insurance?

Both the hospital and birth center were with insurance
@Mackenzie that's very helpful, thank you! Did those prices include prenatal care as well or just the births?

With my first pregnancy I didn’t have to pay anything since I have insurance and it’s going to be the same with this pregnancy 38w
My insurance covers everything
Does anyone have experience they can share? I have a pretty good health plan with Kaiser Northern California, $500 deductible. They just gave me an estimate for almost $2000 for a vaginal birth.
Someone let me know how payment worked & how much you paid in total possibly!! Ty
EDIT: It says the (almost) $2000 is my 20% coinsurance. My out of pocket max is 2,500
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