“The nurse let me hold the baby on my wife`s neck/chest,” he wrote on the website. “Even borrowed my camera to take a few pictures for us. Everyone involved in the process was great, and we had a positive experience. We just got a chuckle out of seeing that on the bill.”
Grassley, of Spanish Fork, told that he thought it was “funny and a bit ridiculous” and decided to share it on Reddit. He said he even started a GoFundMe to raise $39 to pay for the charge. They had reached the goal by early Wednesday.
He added that the money would go to a vasectomy “because I never want to go (through) these sleepless new baby nights again."
Janet Frank, a spokeswoman for the Utah Valley Hospital in Provo, told PIX11 that there was an additional nurse in the room during the C-section which is why there was the charge.
“In general, Utah Valley Hospital is an advocate for skin-to-skin contact between a mother and newborn directly after birth. Skin-to-skin is a best practice with proven benefits for both mom and baby. We do everything possible to allow skin-to-skin after both vaginal and C-section births,” Frank said.
“In the case of a C-section, where the bedside caregiver is occupied caring for the mother during surgery, an additional nurse is brought into the OR to allow the infant to remain in the OR suite with the mother. This is to ensure both patients remain safe. There is an additional charge associated with bringing an extra caregiver into the OR. The charge is not for holding the baby, but for the additional caregiver needed to maintain the highest levels of patient safety.”
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