Mom Gets Charged Extra $39.35 To Hold Her Baby After Giving Birth

Hospitals do everything in their power to provide the best conditions for a mother giving birth and it’s completely fine that they charge people for these services, but one facility went a step too far. A new mother received a $39.35 hospital bill for “Skin To Skin” service which is just a fancy term for holding your child.

“The nurse let me hold the baby on my wife’s neck/chest. Even borrowed my camera to take a few pictures for us. Everyone involved in the process was great, and we had a positive experience. We just got a chuckle out of seeing that on the bill,” the father said.

(h/t: distractify)

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Pavel Nekoranec 8 years ago

"completely fine that they charge people for these services"? I'm so happy for health insurance in Europe, I never experience any bill like that, everything is paid by state or my employer, this is crazy ...

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