I think it varies very widely, depending on whether you’re a private or subsidised patient, which company you engage for photoshoots, massages, etc. The confinement pricing is probably relatively similar across the board. For baby stuff, again, the prices have a huge difference depending on where you buy from, and whether buying branded baby stuff is important to you:)
I was a private patient in a public hospital, didn’t do a maternity photoshoot, didn’t have a confinement nanny but bought a confinement food delivery package for 28 days, didn’t go for massages, bought the big baby stuff from baby fairs initially but most of the smaller stuff and all the subsequent baby needs online. My medical bills were probably about 5-6k, confinement package about 1.5k and all expenses for baby’s first year was probably about 3-4k (including the hardware stuff and the daily consumables like diapers, later on milk/baby food, etc). I breastfed for 10 months. Expenditure lessened when I started buying clothes/diapers, etc from online and would wait for sales and combine coupons, etc.
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