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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's the current cost of having a baby? Here's the actual bill
for my birth in 1948. It includes a 5 day hospital stay for my mother and me.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)And, they sent us home with a dozen cloth diapers, 6 bottles of water plus all the complimentary lotions, soaps, etc.
In the 60s, our family's health insurance was less than $15/month.
How far we've come...
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)Retailers used to provide them (loose, not stuck to a paper) for every item that was taxed. Kids would take them to school, and the school would exchange them for classroom supplies.
I think that was only for the first few years I was in school, in the early 50s.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,838 posts)compared to the actual cost now.
On average, U.S. hospital deliveries cost $3,500 per stay, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Add in prenatal, delivery-related and post-partum healthcare, and you're looking at an $8,802 tab, according to a Thomson Healthcare study for March of Dimes.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)in NYC back then, for $45 a month.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)Was about $150. And I had serious health complications and required a whole system blood transfusion. (Or whatever it's called when they replace all your original blood with new blood.)
Fix The Stupid
(948 posts)It is the funniest thing you will ever see...an actual receipt for a human child, administrative costs of $7.00 CAN. in the '70's.
Needless to say, we have a lot of fun with that tid-bit..."you're only worth $7.00"...
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)My two children was born in the last century, my son in Denmark and my daughter in Russia. Both had very nice arrivals at hospitals - though the Russians gave the best care: The first weeks after birth every day there would be a home visit from either a doctor or a nurse. Free of all cost .