Title: How Much Does it Cost to Have a Baby? | The Simple Dollar
Headings: How Much Does it Cost to Have a Baby?
How Much Does it Cost to Have a Baby?
The Rising Costs of Having a Child
Estimating the Costs of Prenatal Care and Delivery
Prenatal Care with Health Insurance
Marketplace Coverage
Employer Coverage
Medicaid Coverage
Pregnancy Costs for the Uninsured
How to Reduce Maternity Costs
Cost of Raising a Child Calculator
What Your Baby Really Needs Through Age One
What to have at the hospital
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The Bottom Line on the Cost of Having a Child
Holly Johnson

Content: “In today’s economy, it’s important to be prepared with as much information as possible when planning for the future,” said USDA Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services under Secretary Kevin Concannon in a press release. It’s not just bottles and diapers you’ll have to worry about, notes the USDA. Hopeful parents need to calculate future costs of everything required to take adequate care of their child through infancy to adulthood, and that includes daycare, clothing, nutritious food, and medical care. Not surprisingly, and as the report shows, none of those comes cheap. But those expenses don’t fall on every American family in quite the same way, the report notes. While highlighting the average cost of raising a child, the government report does leave room for geographical variations and individual circumstances. For example, living in a high-cost region or a major urban center could dramatically drive up the cost of everything from food to child care compared to a family who lives in, say, a rural part of the Midwest. Estimating the Costs of Prenatal Care and Delivery
Prenatal care is health care provided to both you and your baby during your pregnancy. The benefits of receiving this type of care cannot be understated. In fact, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that a lack of prenatal care makes it three times more likely a baby will have a low birth weight and five times more likely a newborn will die in the womb or shortly after birth.