I'm curious here. How much was your medical bill when your kid(s) were born. Not what the insurance covered, but what you and your significant other has to come out of pocket with.
For me and my wife, our first kid we had to drop $4,500. Half of that had to be paid to the OB/GYN before the baby even arrived because the practice had gotten burned by people being unable to pay the delivery bill.
Second kid was $5,300.
And again, this was our out of pocket, not the portion paid by ins.
@Hobyrim I'm in the UK where the NHS still holds on by its fingernails and as far as I know still provides free at point of use pre post and delivery care. It's obvs paid by taxes and even though I've never wanted kids myself I'm happy that my taxes help provide that level of care. But, there are now many in the UK govt who want to roll back the NHS and follow the US route and that makes me very very sad.