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[b]My husband always offers[/b] to split these costs, but honestly, my insurance has covered nearly everything, and since at this time I'm earning more than he is I've been glad to pay for the out-of-pocket costs myself. Things like breast pumps and classes we will surely split, or [b]he'll insist on covering them[/b] since I covered the early medical costs.

I am so, so glad I asked this question because you are all giving incredible answers. Thank you so much.[/quote]

He sounds very…gallant. But do you really want to be having conversations like these for the rest of your marriage? DH and I have integrated finances from day one, and it seems so much more complicated to be constantly negotiating who pays for what with separate finances. [/quote]

Yeah, you sound more like roommates.  Only divorced people or people never married split the cost of the baby.  Time to start acting like a single family unit.[/quote]

I think people who split everything in the beginning are doing so because they expect it will make things easier when they divorce. They are thinking like singletons not a married unit. We combined everything in the beginning because it was "till death do us part." and we were committed to making it work. Married 9+ years.[/quote]

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