https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:56:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550723 Tue, 17 May 2016 17:51:49 +0000 jaguar 2550723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know a total figure, because it scares me too much to add up. </p> <p>The IVF and miscarriage and Fertility stuff alone is one thing.. which is terrifying.</p> <p>Pregnancy wise, I've had a couple of ER scares and additional testing, plus OB fees and what-not, I'm probably looking at 5k alone for that.. and we haven't even delivered yet, I'm only 18+4.</p> <p>.... but I'd do it all over again for a healthy take home baby. :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550701 Tue, 17 May 2016 16:36:33 +0000 pregnantbee 2550701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No idea! And I'm terrified to even think about adding it all up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550699 Tue, 17 May 2016 16:33:53 +0000 Pollywog 2550699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My hospital bill for all visits, labs, and the birth was $3945 (high deductible, so this was the full negotiated rate). Then $300 for clothes and bras, that was it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550690 Tue, 17 May 2016 16:22:05 +0000 LindsayLou 2550690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had double coverage, very low premiums ($0 for one policy, $30 a month for the other) and good insurance on both sides. </p> <p>Finishing off my yearly deductible: $200<br /> Prenatals: $30<br /> Maternity clothes: $50<br /> Newborn hospital care: $300</p> <p>I voted $500 and under, but forgot about vitamins at first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550687 Tue, 17 May 2016 16:18:59 +0000 chibee 2550687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted $1000 and under, but i think it's prob less? I have a very low deductible ($250) and a great insurance so my pregnancy and labor/birth cost me less than $300-400 (I live in NJ, work in NYC, in case you were wondering). I would assume i spent a lot on clothes (i loved maternity clothes idk why!) and like, lots of food - like takeouts for cravings etc! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550653 Tue, 17 May 2016 15:46:30 +0000 mrs.kiwi 2550653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First pregnancy : less than $100<br /> $40-50 on clothes<br /> $20 on prenatals<br /> $20 o progesterone<br /> (Was gifted some maternity clothes, got a free pregnancy pillow, and all this does not include the insurance premium)</p> <p>Second pregnancy: less than $50<br /> -$25-30 clothes<br /> -$10 prenatals<br /> (Saved stuff from first pregnancy and again this does not include insurance premium) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550474 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:33:12 +0000 catomd00 2550474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Basically nothing since its #2!</p> <p>$20 in copays for PT for SPD<br /> $50 for an SI-Loc belt for SPD (going to force insurance to reimburse it)<br /> $150 in new maternity clothes<br /> $100 admission copay when I deliver<br /> $20 prenatals </p> <p>My first was $6k in deductibles alone so this ones been a dream in comparison! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550470 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:28:15 +0000 MoonMoon 2550470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was billed about $800 for some tests before we switched our insurance over to more coverage.</p> <p>I spent &lt;$75 on a few maternity shirts, borrowed everything else</p> <p>Borrowed body pillow from friend</p> <p>Maybe $30-40 on a few bottles of prenatal vitamins</p> <p>Anti-nausea meds were covered by insurance, maybe $5 co-pay?</p> <p>So I voted less than $1000. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550462 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:23:30 +0000 looch 2550462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I include my monthly premiums in the figure, yeah, we paid nothing out of pocket, but it cost $250 per month for my insurance. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550457 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:21:10 +0000 SweetiePie 2550457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I figured IVF costs into my poll answer but now I realize I might not have understood the question. I said $9k plus. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550450 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:15:11 +0000 BadgerMom 2550450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I chose $3,000 or under. Our oop medical was $2,061.52 and I don't think I spent more than $1,000 on everything else. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550444 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:09:47 +0000 BSB 2550444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What about nursery costs? Or are we excluding that?</p> <p>Also, I did IVF so it was a pretty penny to do it. $18K</p> <p>1st trimester meds was about $350 (progesterone in oil and esterdiol)</p> <p>I accumulated items like pregnancy pillow from a flash sale and bought a belly band. </p> <p>As for medical, I paid about $200 for 6 week hospital stay and birth of the twins. For the twins 2 week nicu stay, I paid $250. I paid $200 ($400 total) for the two hospital stays because of HG. I had a few accupunture copays. All together from the time I was pregnant to after the babies were released from the nicu, I paid about $1745. (I confirmed these amounts by logging into my medical insurance account).</p> <p>Oh, I took an expecting multiples class. That was $210.</p> <p>Maternity clothes was borrowed but I did spend about $250 on new clothes before my friends and family gave me maternity clothes to borrow.</p> <p>So total, I would say about $3k not including IUI/IVF costs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550370 Tue, 17 May 2016 11:38:37 +0000 petitenoisette 2550370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>medical costs, $0 (we do pay a lot in insurance premiums though)<br /> maternity clothes: prob ~$300-400. In retrospect I can't believe how much I spent, but it was mostly all in bits and pieces.<br /> when I voted I forgot about our birth class and prenatal vitamins, that was ~$250 + $30 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550364 Tue, 17 May 2016 11:37:15 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2550364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Barely any maternity clothes the first time (borrowed a lot)<br /> Prenatal vitamins </p> <p>I think that's it. Less then $200. </p> <p>This time a bit more because I've paid for parking a few times, overnight trip in a hotel because I had an ultrasound in another city, bought some mat clothes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550338 Tue, 17 May 2016 11:14:25 +0000 Chillybear 2550338@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1st pregnancy<br /> - vitamins ($40)<br /> - Office Visit Co-pay ($30) one time fee<br /> - 3 day hospital stay bc of kidney stones at 20 wks ($300)<br /> - Co pay for pump upgrade ($60)<br /> - Clothes ($250)<br /> - 3 day hospital stay /delivery ($300) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550328 Tue, 17 May 2016 11:03:18 +0000 Caly 2550328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Being pregnant/Delivery: Approx 1k<br /> Getting Pregnant: Mid 30k </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550320 Tue, 17 May 2016 10:59:38 +0000 hellobeeboston 2550320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First pregnancy: $350 for hospital stay (all visits included) probably about $250 on maternity items (i borrowed a lot)</p> <p>Second pregnancy: $250 hospital stay<br /> $100 in specialist visits<br /> $150 in maternity clothes </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550315 Tue, 17 May 2016 10:55:02 +0000 YouGotMe 2550315@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First pregnancy:<br /> $100 on clothing<br /> $125 hospital stay. </p> <p>Second (current) pregnancy:<br /> $150 clothing (different season)<br /> $100 on morning sickness medication (still!)<br /> I'm anticipating a $125 hospital bill if I can get a private room again </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550298 Tue, 17 May 2016 10:41:45 +0000 runnerd 2550298@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yuck - depressing question!! I'm not even going to try to tally non-medical but that was &lt;$500 per pregnancy. Medical LO #1 = $4k, about $2000 each baby and I; Medical LO #2 will be $4500 for me, plus whatever baby medical expense (hoping low! With #1 he was in NICU so maxed out) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550290 Tue, 17 May 2016 10:34:01 +0000 raspberries 2550290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted for $500 or less - but that doesn't include our monthly insurance premiums (which are sky high, but not just for pregnancy-related health issues.) Doctors appts/birth was a $10 copay for us. I spent probably $350 on maternity clothes, $100 on prenatals/stretch mark cream (didn't help, ha), and $30 for a pregnancy pillow </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550272 Tue, 17 May 2016 10:20:47 +0000 snowjewelz 2550272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I chose 5k or under, b/c my hospital bills def came out to be a few thousand if I remember correctly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550245 Tue, 17 May 2016 10:07:11 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2550245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh yea, prenatals and other supplements are more too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550242 Tue, 17 May 2016 10:04:58 +0000 DenverMom 2550242@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My medical bills alone were about 5k, so with everything else I'm guessing around 6k. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550234 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:56:48 +0000 erinbaderin 2550234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Are we counting getting pregnant, or just once we got pregnant? Getting pregnant, let's say $30,000? Being pregnant, under $1000, and that's pretty much just maternity clothes, vitamins, and parking over 2 pregnancies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550232 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:54:14 +0000 kes18 2550232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had to pay $3k out of pocket (most of that was co-insurance on the hospital stay) for everything related to pregnancy and birth. My deductible was $500. I spent maybe another $500 on clothes and vitamins. I didn't buy much in the way of clothing. Maybe extra $ on food (eating out). But I bet roughly $4k is close. Doesn't include anything for baby outside of medical bills. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550229 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:52:54 +0000 lovehoneybee 2550229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first was easily over 7k. I think the medical bills alone were 7.5k. That was a big factor in our decision about whether or not to have another kid. </p> <p>I think my second probably came in under $250, mostly maternity clothes. I bought almost all of my maternity clothes from bees or swap.com, but I tossed everything after I had my first (we were like 98% sure we were one and done). The total medical cost for her was...$50, which included a $25 co-pay to get my IUD out, and a $25 co-pay for the rest of the pregnancy (one ER visit, 10+ ultrasounds, and a C-section). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550228 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:52:15 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2550228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I spent about $300 on meds in the first trimester, which kept me pregnant.</p> <p>I think I spent about $150 on clothes. I was lucky to be able to borrow quite a bit from friends and find things secondhand. </p> <p>My hospital bill was about $2k and the baby's was $1k.</p> <p>I can't think of anything else, other than the $$$$ we spent to get pregnant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550227 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:50:36 +0000 catlady 2550227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For just maternity stuff, under 1k for my LO. Insurance covered all medical stuff so it was just prenatals, maternity clothes, and misc. stuff like seabands, a pregnancy pillow, books, and prenatal exercise dvds.</p> <p>This pregnancy, I was on progesterone supplements and diclegis, which are both pricey, but I won't need to buy as many maternity clothes, so I would guess it will end up under $500 (I hope).</p> <p>If you start counting how much income I lose on maternity leave, or the amount we spent on stuff for LO while I was still pregnant, it's a whole different story! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550223 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:46:21 +0000 ShootingStar 2550223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmm, here's a guess - </p> <p>First Pregnancy:<br /> Clothes - $500<br /> Maternity Belt - $20<br /> Pregnancy Pillow - $50<br /> Hospital Stay - $250<br /> Total = $820</p> <p>Second Pregnancy (not done yet):<br /> Clothes - $200 (different seasons, all my pants were too big)<br /> Maternity Belt - $20 (didn't like the first one)<br /> Pregnancy Pillow - $38 (didn't like the first one)<br /> Hospital Stay - $500 (different ins. this time)<br /> Total = $758 (not over yet though) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-did-your-pregnancy-cost-you-1#post-2550220 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:44:38 +0000 yoursilverlining 2550220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man, I don’t want to know!! :silly: </p> <p>Rough estimates – I know medical costs were around/at least $5k all in; including seeing a couple of different specialists, the cost of Rx co-pays, OTC drugs, etc. </p> <p>Clothing – my MIL spent over $1k on maternity clothes for me, including professional suits and clothing (thankyouthankyouthankyou) and I spent a few hundred myself….so maybe $1500 all together? I gained a ton of weight, swelling increased my foot size by 1 shoe size and I went from an A cup to a DD, so I legit actually needed a full new wardrobe of clothes, under clothes and shoes. </p> <p>Probably about $300 total between prenatal yoga classes, other pregnancy-related classes, pillows, etc. </p> <p>Who knows what I'm missing! </p>