davidandgrace
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Dear all, I suggest if we can consolidate all hospital (private & public) charge and we can share the experience of their service. Is it worth or not? :bighug :bighug
Hospital Charge
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this is what we paid for at Canossa:-
$15,500 hospital charges, semi-private, natural birth package
$18,000 Dr's fees (inc. oby & paed), natural birth (paid more because baby was born on Sunday)
$5,000 Anaethetist (again paid a bit more as it was a Sunday)
$6,500 charge for epidural
$45,000 in total. Much lower than we expected and if baby had arrived on a non-weekend day, then it would have been about $7.5k cheaper.
it was my first baby so i had no comparable experience, but i was defintely grateful for the peace and quiet so i could rest properly. my room mate didn't have loads of visitors which was nice, and my husband was allowed to stay with me past 9pm if he wanted to. the nurses/ midwives were nice, they bring the baby to your bed if you want to breastfeed. if you're formula feeding then you have to go to the nursery. although they were supportive of breastfeeding, each one told me different things and i ended up being very confused because i thought they must all be right and i must be totally wrong - which was definetely not the case. i suggest really reading up on breastfeeding beforehand if you have a chance (because i totally didn't as i thought it would be really instinctual and natural) and psychologically prepare yourself as to how hard it will be and how much it will hurt in the beginning. then at least when it does go without a hitch, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
$15,500 hospital charges, semi-private, natural birth package
$18,000 Dr's fees (inc. oby & paed), natural birth (paid more because baby was born on Sunday)
$5,000 Anaethetist (again paid a bit more as it was a Sunday)
$6,500 charge for epidural
$45,000 in total. Much lower than we expected and if baby had arrived on a non-weekend day, then it would have been about $7.5k cheaper.
it was my first baby so i had no comparable experience, but i was defintely grateful for the peace and quiet so i could rest properly. my room mate didn't have loads of visitors which was nice, and my husband was allowed to stay with me past 9pm if he wanted to. the nurses/ midwives were nice, they bring the baby to your bed if you want to breastfeed. if you're formula feeding then you have to go to the nursery. although they were supportive of breastfeeding, each one told me different things and i ended up being very confused because i thought they must all be right and i must be totally wrong - which was definetely not the case. i suggest really reading up on breastfeeding beforehand if you have a chance (because i totally didn't as i thought it would be really instinctual and natural) and psychologically prepare yourself as to how hard it will be and how much it will hurt in the beginning. then at least when it does go without a hitch, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Delthine,
Do you have an email I can send the details to? Just to let you know, my Oby is a fairly straightforward, no pampering type of Dr. as she is probably more typical of a local HK Dr. (hence the reasonable fees). So you have to decide whether this style of "doctoring" is ok with you. I had no problems with her standard of care though. Her fees included checking up on the baby whilst they were still in the hospital so I didn't need to pay seperately for a paed.
Do you have an email I can send the details to? Just to let you know, my Oby is a fairly straightforward, no pampering type of Dr. as she is probably more typical of a local HK Dr. (hence the reasonable fees). So you have to decide whether this style of "doctoring" is ok with you. I had no problems with her standard of care though. Her fees included checking up on the baby whilst they were still in the hospital so I didn't need to pay seperately for a paed.