If you do have another child, labor, delivery and hospitalization will likely make up a good portion of your expenses, as even an uncomplicated vaginal birth results in an average of $30,000 in hospital charges.
For patients < 6 years of age, the average cost of malaria admissions increased with the complexity of the malaria diagnosis; in 2003, the average cost of an uncomplicated malaria admission was $32 compared with $77 for malaria with severe anemia.
But one 2013 study by the the advocacy group Childbirth Connection found that, on average, hospitals charged $32,093 for an uncomplicated vaginal birth and newborn care, and $51,125 for a standard caesarean section and newborn care.
For example, the average length of stay for an uncomplicated malaria patient in was 5.2 days in 2003 compared with 9.8 days in 2008.
"Childbirth is the most common reason for hospitalization, and even for an uncomplicated childbirth, we see a staggering difference in what hospitals charge, even for the same, average patient," Hsia said in a statement.
In 2009 10, the average length of stay for a public hospital birth episode was two days for an uncomplicated vaginal birth and four days for a caesarean section without major complications [ 3].
On average, another 0.006 year of life per patient could be saved by keeping patients with an uncomplicated course in the hospital another day.
Take sheep, as an uncomplicated example.
It hasn't been an uncomplicated period.
Happiness was such an uncomplicated thing.
Miss Read was an uncomplicated person.
