Cost of a homebirth? - Page 2

[OhMel]

1100 in NE Ohio. It was covered by insurance last time and I'm hoping for the same this time around.

[Wugmama]

In St. Paul, MN we are paying $3,000. That includes 2 midwives, prenatal care (awesome BTW), delivery, 24 hour visit, 72 hour visit, 1 week visit all to my home. Then also includes for me and the baby to visit them at 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 6-8 weeks.

Our birth kit was ~$36. We paid $10 for 3 birth classes.
~Tracy

[JenniferC]

$2500 in Alberta, Canada. This includes all the prenatal, delivery, postnatal etc. very similar to as mentioned above! We do have to buy our own birthing tub this time, for $45, and the basic supplies to have on hand .

[MsGrizzle]

I live in northern Connecticut. We'll be paying $3000 which includes the prenatal visits (every 3 weeks and then down to 2 and then 1 as it gets closer), several postpartum home visits, and a 3 week childbirth class. This includes payment to the CPM and her assistant.

We have a PPO so I'm planning to fight for an 'out of network' reimbursement....

[AnditheBee]

However, I went with a lady that is about an hour away from me that is significantly less and trained with the other midwives I just mentioned about 10 years ago. She works mostly with the Amish and Menonite community and is very flexible on payment arraingments and bartering services. She charges $850 for the birth, $25 for the birth kit, and $35 for each prenatal visit. She allows you to choose how many prenatal visits you want and what you're comfortable with. I go to her for them, but at the birth she'll come to me. She also has an apprentice that will be her helper at the birth...or can act as a doula as well. If I choose to use any herbs to assist with labor or anything, that too would cost extra depending on what herbs I wanted her to use. Also, I plan on spending about $40 (after shipping) on the large fishy pool. So, after all is said and done...I'm looking at about $1100.

Sounds a lot like the mw I'm working with--and she is in the south/central region of Ohio, so maybe it's the same one! Her fee is sliding-scale, and for us is going to be about $1100. There is at least one advantage to living in a rural area--from reading this thread, it's clear that midwives are way cheaper here than elsewhere! Some insurance companies will cover them, too, but we aren't sure about ours...they have officially said no (they'd rather pay $15,000 for an ERCS!!!), but if we appeal afterward (3 or 4 times!) we might get somewhere.

[Peppamint]

I'm so glad Andi that homebirth is more affordable in a rural area! We're paying out of pocket- I'm not insured so I can't even try for a reimbursement (not that it would do much good because if dh put me on his insurance it'd cost me over $100/month and I'd have a $700 deductible and open enrollment isn't until next Dec). If I did transfer for an emergency, I'd have dh apply for medicare/caid? for me asap so we could get the hospital paid for retroactively- last I knew Hoosier Healthwise wouldn't touch midwives with a ten foot pole.