Mama Blogess


Mothering, Living Green, Striving for a Debt Free Life, Advocating for Gentler Birth Practices

June 22nd, 2005 at 12:55 pm

The Only Reason to go to a Hospital to Give Birth…

…is so that the hospital can make lots of money!
The cost of care for a newborn infant from 7:11 a.m. on Saturday morning to 2:00 p.m. on Monday afternoon: $1,953.57
The cost of care for a laboring and recovering woman from 4:00 a.m. Saturday morning to 2:00 p.m. Monday afternoon: $9,082.09
That’s a grand total of $11,035.66 that goes to the hospital to assist you in doing something that would happen anyway.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 at 12:55 pm and is filed under Birth Activism, Birth Trauma. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply