Saturday, August 1, 2009

on a baby's 1st yr how much would you spend:the cost of the doctor,hospitalization,food,health care child care

on a baby's 1st yr how much would you spend:the cost of the doctor,hospitalization,food,health care child care?

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I heard it was close to 10,000$ However I don't pay for medical care here in Canada. I also have gotten hand me down clothes. And I breastfed for close to 8 months. So it depends on your lifestyle. You can make it cheap if your smart.
2 :
depends on the baby. Mine is only 2 1/2 months old and has already cost us $13,000.00 in healthcare due to he was transferred by ambulance to a childrens hospital NICU at birth. some babies are perfectly healthy and dont cost quite so much ;o) They cost alot of money, but if you are trying to decide whether to have one or not, dont base your decision on money alone. If you are currently expecting, believe me, you will find a way to support your baby. good luck!
3 :
Well it depends if you have medical card then you pay nothing for hospitalization or health care or the doctor. If you get WIC then you don't pay for food either. If you don't have none of those things then you pay around over 25,000 for the hospitalization and doctor from birth to a year. For health care it depends if you have medical problems in your family if so then count on around 1,000 for health care without insurance. With insurance then no more 500.00 a year. Food is expensive these days especially for babies to a year. You are going to pay around 3,000 a year for your child. Children are not cheap. Good luck
4 :
Depends on a lot of factors, but it will always be more than you really figured you could afford to spend. In the US an average pregnancy and delivery from 1st appointment to taking the baby home is going to run anywhere from 3-5 grand, you'll spend at least 1500.00 on diapers, probably another 1500.00 on formula and baby food if you don't breastfeed and make your own baby food, and it is easy to drop another 5 grand or more setting up the nursery and getting all the clothes. Then there are well baby visits and immunizations, probably looking at at least as much as the pregnancy costs if you don't have insurance, pictures of the baby, a couple hundred dollars on lotions and creams and over the counter medicines.... If you don't have insurance and buy everything they have at top prices you could easily get a small house instead. The good news is that babies get gifts from grandma's, you can get things secondhand, and they don't really need everything that's out there on the market. You really just need somewhere to keep them, something to wrap around the butt to catch the poop and pee, enough clothes that you can have something on them while everything else they've already peed on is in the washer, and food to keep them alive, which mom's can make themselves for free. Once they start eating people food they can eat mashed up food from your own plate if you make it bland enough. There will always be a million things you could buy for your baby, but very few things they will die without having.

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