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Question by Tracy: How much do hospitals charge for newborns ?
I am having a baby, and I know what I am going to be charged for me, it will max my co-insurance. My question revolves around my son. How much money does a hospital typically charge for a newborn while they are in the hospital.(assuming the typical 2-3 days in the hospital + a circumcision, and no major problems) I am afraid to know what hospitals charge for the baby + looking for some answers if anyone knows.
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Answer by Bethypoo
for my daughter it costed $ 850, but she was very healthy and we only stayed in the hospital for a day after she was born. At the hospital where I live they charge $ 250 for a circumcision. To get a more precise estimate of costs check with your hospital, they should be able to give you a list of fees.
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That is something your insurance can answer. I stayed for 3 days and if I didn’t have insurance it would have been around $ 25,000 for everything. With my insurance I only had to pay out of pocket $ 300
Comment by momoftwins — September 9, 2011 @ 11:01 am
Mine was sort of bundled up with my whole pregnancy & delivery along with recovery. Our insurance charged $ 300 for all pregnancy visits. Then $ 500 for the hospital stay. So $ 800 total to be pregnant, deliver, and recover in the hospital with me and baby. Food included. Ha ha
Comment by momoftwo — September 9, 2011 @ 11:32 am
our bill was 47,000.00 but he spent 1 week in the nicu
Comment by Lorenzo's mommy — September 9, 2011 @ 12:02 pm
The total cost of mine and my sons stay at the hospital was 3000 plus his circumsision but I don’t remember how much that was. They just billed it together. I left the hospital the next day though so I was only there for two days.
Comment by Mindy W — September 9, 2011 @ 12:06 pm
I know it’s not your question but please don’t get your son circ’d. It’s completely pointless and can be dangerous. He can get it done when he’s older if he wants it.
Comment by Wolfchild — September 9, 2011 @ 12:33 pm
My daughter was in the hospital for 4 days and our bill for her was around 7,000 and she had no problems…
Comment by Mommy to 2 little angels — September 9, 2011 @ 12:39 pm
Luckily it’s free here in Australia, in the US it really seems to depend what happens I’ve heard around a thousand usually more if everything goes well. The circumcision is pretty expensive and not necessary so that would cut a lot out of your bill if you didn’t do that, it’s mostly a money making procedure now anyway. If you need to know costs in detail I think you should ring the hospital and ask, I’ve heard some people have been sent bills in advance.
Harriet
Comment by Harriet — September 9, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
circumsion removes the most important part of the penis. Because without the foreskin the penis does not funtion normaly. Removing the foreskin means removing 20,000+ nerve endings from your son’s penis. That’s a lot of sensitivity. Also when a guy is circumcised his head rubbs against his pants and his underwear and this makes his head calous over and become dried out and tough. this further dammages nerve endings. I can tell you that I know this is true because I am circumised and I am restoring my foreskin and my penis is becomeing more and more sensitive. You do not want to deprive your son of a good sex life and you want to make sure he can enjoy sex to the fullest. Also circumisino removes nerve endings and blood vessels making premature ejaculation and early erectile dysfuntion more prone in circumised males.
Circumsision only reduces a boys chance of getting an infections or UTI within the first year of life. but I have studied the statistics and your son would be 4 times (if not more) more likley to get an infection from his circumision wound then he would not being circumcised. I have had 6 UTI’s in my life and believe me, being circumcised would hurt a million times more than any infection ever could. Plus your son is very unlikley to get and infection anyways. and even if he did get one, doctors have great anti-biotics. They made the symptoms of my infections go away within 24 hours. Females are 5 times more likley to get an infection ove males and we don’t cut up their genitals for it. Keep that in mind. Doctors give them medicine instead of reccomending cutting them up. If you wouldn’t cut your baby girl, why would you cut your baby boy? If your baby girl is more likley to get an infection.
There have been studies that say boys who are circumcised are 60% less likley to contract and STD of HIV. These studies were preformed in Africa in countries like Uganda and Kenya. These studies were done over a period of 2 months. The studies were cut short because after two months the study already proved the point the study was trying to get at. Well they took around 4,000 African males and circumcised 50% of them. Now keep in mind that a circumcision wound takes 4-6 weeks to heal enough for sexual activity and may take up to 3 months for fully heal. 2 months after 50% of the African males were circumcised they tested each group for HIV. The uncircumcised males showed a much higher HIV rate then the circumcised ones. Well durring the time the whole study was taken place the circumcised males couldn’t contract HIV because they weren’t having sex because of their wound. So that study is completly flawed and it’s amazing that people are still stupid enough to believe all of it.
Being circumcised does not reduce your son’s chances of contracting any STD, including HIV. Plus why don’t you teach your son to be a civilized human being and not to sleep around, and teach him he needs to use condoms. That seems like a better idea then chopping off half of his penis. (circumcision removes 33-55% of penile skin).
Circumcision is not cleaner either. Is a circumcised penis easier to clean? Yes. But is it cleaner? No. All it takes is your son to spend 30 extra seconds in the shower and he is just as clean as any cut male.
Also another factor in this is your son’s personal rights. It’s his penis is it not? Therefore it should only be his choice to decide something this big. If he wants to remove a part of his genitals then I think he is the only person that can decide that for himself. I hate my mother for circumcising me. It’s my body not hers. Who said she had a right to do anything to it? This should be your son’s choice when he is older. If he wants to get circumcised later in life then it will be his decision. Just as it should be.
Leave the dicision up to him.
Take the whole baby home.
He will thank you for it when he grows up and realizes he is a whole man as God made him.
-Connor
Comment by Connor — September 9, 2011 @ 1:17 pm