Yes SIR!
Posted on 10/04/2016 10:41:01 AM PDT by bkopto
Having a baby is expensive – nowhere more so than in the United States, where birth costs can run into the thousands of dollars.
But nothing could prepare this particular dad for what he claims was the most unexpected of extra costs: holding his child.
Yup: “skin-to-skin” – the act of holding your baby against your body after birth – is a chargeable part of the service, according to a photograph of a medical bill he posted on Reddit.
The man added: “During the C-section the nurse asked my wife if she would like to do skin to skin after the baby was born. Which of course anyone would say yes to. We just noticed it in the bill today and had a laugh. All these internet points I’ve been showered with make me feel better about the $40. This could be my proudest moment as a father. “The nurse let me hold the baby on my wife’s neck/chest. Even borrowed my camera to take a few pictures for us. Everyone involved in the process was great, and we had a positive experience. We just got a chuckle out of seeing that on the bill.”
Another user offered an explanation for the supposed charge, saying: “As a labour and delivery nurse, I can kind of explain this. I didn’t know that hospitals charged for it, but doing ‘skin to skin’ in the operating room requires an additional staff member to be present just to watch the baby.
“We used to take all babies to the nursery once the NICU team made sure everything was okay. “Skin to skin” in the OR (operating room) is a relatively new thing and requires a second Labour and Delivery RN to come in to the OR and make sure the baby is safe.”
My grandfather was born in a cabbage patch in Yugoslavia. His mom was picking cabbage, had the baby, wrapped him up and kept picking cabbage.
You are so right. E
Yes SIR!
Obviously, not a HOME remedy.
That is how it was in the 1970s when I gave birth to my 4.
Pretty much the same as with standard deliveries. (The whisking may be just across the room, depending on the hospital and the baby's condition).
Knowing what comes out of a newborn's business end, I didn't ever think "skin to skin" was something I needed right then.
I thought about having a home birth for my 6th one, but I realized my family would be expecting me to clean up afterward, start the laundry, and get a meal on the table. At least, in the hospital, they changed the linens and brought me food, and I had to diaper only one child for a couple of days.
Where else are you going to put the ice and the beer for hubby?
Do you have a cordless drill and a good set of bits handy, I can walk you through it. LOL
Don’t need one. I’m not afraid. To die. People do it all the time.
I remember the last time I cried, it was at 0805 in the morning on September 15, 2013, I was looking at my minutes old baby daughter in a Thailand Hospital.
My wife spent 3 nights in a private VIP room after her cesarean and then I got the bill (I had no insurance), it came to about $200 on top of the $250 I already paid the doctor. I was more than happy to pay.
However, I will admit the hospital was not as modern as what I had in USA.
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