How much did you pay your midwife? I live in Texas and my dh and I are just trying to get a ballpark figure for how much our hb is going to cost as we do not have insurance. I know there is usually a flat fee, plus lab fees and then supplies. About how much did your supplies end up costing? Any info will help, thanks!

medicaid paid for everything except a $225 assistant's fee, although i had to use a BC, i couldn't homebirth

Where are you in TX? I expect rates vary by location.

We're in Houston. 2.5yrs ago we paid $2000 for our midwife (we switched to her late, her usual fee was $2400)

Her fee now varies from $2500-$3600 depending on how far in advance you pay. (lowest I think for paying by 20 weeks, up to highest, not paid until after 36 weeks)

Other midwives in town are as much as $5000 once you add labs and such.

-Angela

i'm in ny. the midwives i'm going with charge $5K flat fee plus lab tests. the other practice i looked at charges 7.5K plus labs.

im in ma and my mw charges $3200 plus labs and supplies. i had already done most of my labs b4 i switched to her and they were covered by my ins - i would assume that regular pregnancy associated labs could be covered by ins, even if they dont cover hb itself. i just had my gbs test done and she put my name and ins number right on the test tube and i think the lab will bill bcbs first?? my supplies were maybe...hrm...$250-$300 including my pool and pump. i got most of my stuff a little at a time, so its hard to add it up in my head.

2400 + labs and supplies if insurance does not cover. If insurance covers the HB she bills around 3500.

In central Florida we pay around 4,200$

In Maine, we paid $3000, which covered everything, including a tub. They use a sliding scale. We managed to get most of it reimbursed by insurance.

In Tucson I am paying $2450 (that's with a $300 military discount) plus labs. Her $2450 covers the initial prenatal blood work up and the GTT, those are the only labs she "requires" and the other ones you pay out of pocket for including u/s. My insurance will cover the labs though although I'll prob just have one u/s late in the pregnancy to check for placenta location...I don't think I'm doing any of the other routine tests.

3,000 for the MW, I switched to her at 30 weeks and still had to pay the full fee. I also had to buy the birthing kit, I think it was a couple hundred.

2500 here in WA... don't know about lab fees... all of it was paid by insurance.

$2300 and that includes birth kit, tub, birth photography with a prenatal and postpartum session included, and several other "goodies" like a book about homebirth for my dd and homeopathic remedies, etc. I :throb my midwife.

In Northern CA we're paying $2000, that included a birth pool. Other expenses include the 100's of $ in herbs and vitamins and the birth kit (about $30)

wow, i am amazed at how different the prices are across the country. i am in SO CA and we paid $2400, included tub, check up and 6 weeks PP. plus we had to buy the birth kit

i'm in vt... medicaid paid for 1500+ last time, we paid 500. this time medicaid pays 1300 and we are pay 1200 of it...

I'm in FL and my MW charges around $4600 but Medicaid is covering it all for me. I only have to pay $25 for the birth kit.

My first was in 2002 and cost $1250 plus one set of labs and a~$60 birth kit. Second was in 2004-05 and cost $1500 plus labs and birth kit. Third in 2005-06 my MW had joined a FSBC and it was $1750 if paid by 36 weeks or $2000 if after 36 weeks, plus labs and birth kit. With the first two pre-natals were $25-35, postnatals were included in the birth fee. With the third, prenatals and two postnatal visits were included in the fee.

I had no idea how expensive HB was across the country!!:dizzy:

Just to add to the collection of different prices across the country...

At the birth center here in Knoxville, TN, I believe they charge $5000 without insurance, but that's for all your prenatal visits and the labor, everything but your sonogram (and Rhogam if you're Rh negative). The birth pool is $200 extra. With insurance my price would have been about $1200, but since I didn't end up having the baby there I got some of it back.

At the Farm Midwifery Center south of Nashville, they charged us $4000 (because it was a breech birth - I think regular ones are $3000 or $3500?). Insurance only paid $600 of that, after about 9 months. ::irked:

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Eight years ago I was charged $1500, but this was an unlicensed midwife with little overhead.

In finger lakes region NY it's $3000. My insurance should cover $1000 but no promises yet. I pay for the birth kit, too. Insurance covers labs ect. FORTUNALTY my dh has a flex plan at work, which is money that goes to anything medical. We don't use any of it on insurance becuase we quailify for medicaid so the flexplan covers the midwife and birth kit AND doula! Whoo Hoo! There is still left over that covers and rx's, chriopractor, acupunctur ect...

I'm surprised at the differences too. We pay more because we live 1.5 hrs from her so $1800 for the birth and post birth check up, labs, BC etc. Everything else is optional. $40 for a prenatal check up, $50 for a birthpool with all supplies, $50 for having your placenta dried and encapsulated.

homebirth was going to be $4000 here so we opted for a hospital midwife and paid far less.

My MW now (transferred at 33-34 weeks) charges 4000$ total I think (3000$ since I transferred late) and $25 for a birth kit. Medicaid covers all but the birth kit and supplies I bought off the birth supply list (maybe 75$ worth or so....could have done it cheaper, but ran out of time)

here in denver, we paid $2800 (iirc).

We live in Houston, TX & have seen some clear trends in pricing for homebirth MW services. I don't know if we're really still considering homebirth, but while we were looking into it, the prices we were quoted ranged from $2000 to $5600. It seemed as though the price went up with experience, CNM-status (as opposed to CPM or other), and having an office outside the MW's home.
HTH!

My midwife charges $4000, of which I have to pay 20% ... so I pay $800 out of pocket. Oh, and I also had to pay her $300 at the first appointment.

It looks like I may be using a mw out of Sacramento and she charges 4,000
Birth kit is $60

Have no idea what prenatals cost.


In Idaho we paid 1,800 and $60 for the birth kit

Our insurance doesn't cover mw's :bawl:

Am surprised that 2 of the other poster who live in Cal that have cheaper mw's Though 4'000 was the average price in Cal for a mw.

Here in Iowa, my mw -- who is independent, but only births at hospitals -- charged $2500. Insurance didn't cover HER fees, but did cover labs and hospital stays. I also had to pay a "covering doctor fee" for being a VBAC, $200 out of pocket. (Yes, a complete crock.) There's a mw who does HB in town, but she's not an option (she doesn't VBAC), so I don't know what she costs.

I feel my mw was worth every penney...I just wish insurance would pay for it!

My midwife (I could be pregnant RIGHT NOW, I'm not sure yet!) will charge $3800 + driving fees. She's worth about 100k, in my opinion. I'll try to get ins to cover some of it but if they don't, we'll pay her somehow.

In Northern Virginia, the midwife services are about $2500. That's how much I'm paying for mine, but I've seen a few for less and a few for more. I don't remember how much the kit is because I'm not far along enough to buy it yet.

Here in Long Island, NY, midwives are hard to find. Mine charges $5,995. I am lucky that my insurance pays 80% of this, after I pay a $600 deductible. My total cost out-of-pocket is about $1,750. This is for a birth at a hospital birth center. There will be a separate charge for the hospital - I do not yet know what it is.

$2400
$3000 last time