Employee perk. If its a non-employee the U.S. embassy just advises to go home at personal expense.
Makes sense. If my ex-husband and I had been in that position, I would have tried to give birth in the US because I had always thought that the birthplace was what mattered, only, in reference to NBC.
Plus, Sweden didn’t allow the use of epidurals unless there was a c-section. (According to my girlfriends there.) I did that with my first kid, but not with the next two. Much happier mom when the labor is very long like mine tend to be.