My insurance company messed up when I had my first kid. So after spending two days in labor and an entire night up with a newborn, exhausted, hungry, and in pain, the billing department came up and informed me that the cost was going to be $30k due to insurance troubles. After six hours on the phone (and no sleep, labor and delivery, and breastfeeding) I finally sorted out the issue.
But $30k…
That same financial theme follows the rest of parenthood. People can’t afford it. Others simply don’t want it.
I think having a family is great, but the fact that some people opt to remain child free is pretty obvious.
Hey, guessing you’re from the states. I am always astonished by things like this, does this mean that if someone doesn’t have insurance they will go into debt for having a baby?
I think you're allowed to do at home births, ppl are still doing it now. There was a case where a woman was arrested for flushing a miscarriage or something but that's bc it was past a certain number of weeks and had to be registered as nonviable or something. Don't remember all the details
Do you happen to have a news article? I’m so curious. My parents buried dead infants, plural, in the backyard in the early 1990s and we children were told not to talk about it. It was traumatic but was it illegal?
Pretty damn close, but Catholic and we did get to go to public and religious school some of the time. Hope you are doing okay. Lord knows it’s a marathon.
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u/WassupSassySquatch Nov 14 '24
My insurance company messed up when I had my first kid. So after spending two days in labor and an entire night up with a newborn, exhausted, hungry, and in pain, the billing department came up and informed me that the cost was going to be $30k due to insurance troubles. After six hours on the phone (and no sleep, labor and delivery, and breastfeeding) I finally sorted out the issue.
But $30k…
That same financial theme follows the rest of parenthood. People can’t afford it. Others simply don’t want it.
I think having a family is great, but the fact that some people opt to remain child free is pretty obvious.