09/18/2025
🌙✨ Hospital Birth vs. Homebirth – What They Don’t Tell You (look at the pics from a local Mama's bill shared today)
Did you know the average hospital birth in the U.S. can cost $19,000–$24,000 for a straightforward vaginal delivery… and $35,000+ if it ends in a C-section? 😳
Meanwhile, a planned homebirth with a qualified midwife averages $5,000–$6,500 — and that usually includes all prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. Same baby. Same mama. Completely different price tag.
But here’s the thing ⬇️
For healthy, low-risk women, birth is not a medical emergency — it is a natural, physiological process that women’s bodies are designed for. When we treat birth as a medical event by default, it often leads to:
- Higher intervention rates (inductions, epidurals, C-sections)
- Higher risks of infections or complications from interventions
-Loss of autonomy and a more stressful birth environment
Planned homebirth, on the other hand, has been shown to be just as safe for low-risk pregnancies when attended by skilled midwives with clear transfer plans. 💜
It also offers:
- Lower risk of unnecessary interventions
- Personalized, continuous care from someone you already trust
- The comfort and peace of birthing in your own space
- Huge cost savings for families
Yes, hospitals are essential for high-risk situations and emergencies. But for the majority of women with healthy pregnancies, birth doesn’t have to be medicalized, expensive, or filled with interventions.
👉 Birth is sacred. Birth is powerful. Birth is safe when supported in the right environment.
It’s time we start asking — why is the most natural process in the world treated like a high-ticket medical procedure?
✨ Your body was made for this.
THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A LOCAL MOMS GROUP THAT WAS SHARED THIS MORNING!! ( And this is only a smidge of the bill.. )
Please don't get ripped off or think insurance companies pay for your birth in a hospital, you still get a bill!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF ON HOMEBIRTH!
CALL ME if you have any questions or need any guidance , tools or resources!!
