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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren't C-sections generally more expensive? That's a reason to avoid them. I mean insurance will cover it, and then we all have continued rising insurance costs. [/quote]

Look at the lifetime of healthcare costs that a delivery can have on a woman’s health. My vaginal was 40K and my scheduled C section a few years later was a bit over 50K. The hospitals take the negotiated rate from insurers and no one pays that much out of pocket. You are arguing over peanuts - the insurers don’t care that much, the likelihood of a C section is high anyway even for someone planning a vaginal delivery and those births also get very expensive because of all the time/costs for labor then costs of a C section on top - those actually are the most expensive (vaginal
Turned emergency C section).

Pelvic floor PT costs 200 dollars a session. So does therapy for birth trauma. Incontinence supplies are expensive, and incontinence in later life is a leading cause of nursing home admissions. Urogynecologists charge around 500 for a visit, hundreds on top of that for a pessary fitting, etc. Imaging prior to pelvic floor surgery costs thousands - MRI, U/S, defecography, urodynamics, etc. And costs for surgeries like bladder sling for incontinence, rectopexy for rectal prolapse, sacrocolpopexy for bladder/uterine prolapse, etc. are major abdominal surgery and cost likely 10-20K or much, much more.

Consider this:

Between 2016 and 2018, there were 140,762 POP surgical cases annually with an annual national cost estimated at $1.523 billion per year.

pregnancy and birth damage our bodies in many ways, some much more than others, and sometimes the impacts don’t show up
Until menopause [/quote]

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