announced that Gina had given birth in July to their baby boy<\/a>,\u00a0Ellison.<\/p>\nAt that time, they revealed that they had kept the pregnancy a secret the entire time due to Gina’s previous miscarriage in 2020, the same year they got married.<\/p>\n
“I was completely shocked when I saw the medical bills,” Lee Teng exclaimed in the video.<\/p>\n
However, he emphasised that their expenses were based on Gina’s unique case and does not represent usual birthing costs in Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“[Our baby] was born early, and we had an emergency C-section,” he revealed, adding that they were suddenly informed by their doctor that an immediate delivery was necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They had initially thought Gina was admitted to the private hospital just for bed rest to stabilise her pregnancy. But after an evaluation, the doctor decided to perform an emergency C-section the next morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Due to the premature delivery, Ellison had to be admitted to the\u00a0neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), which cost S$65K, after he was born.<\/p>\n
Gina also opted to stay in an A-class ward, which cost over S$700 per night. Fees also included the doctor\u2019s surgical fees as well as the anesthesiologist’s\u00a0fees.<\/p>\n
As Gina stayed in the hospital for five days due to her special circumstances, one more day than the typical C-section procedure, the bill came up to over\u00a0S$30K.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In total, their medical bill totalled to approximately S$95K.<\/p>\n
The couple noted that the high price was due to the suddenness of their case. A standard Caesarean section in the same ward in a private hospital is usually about S$15K to S$18K, while a natural birth costs about S$10K.<\/p>\n
Costs in public hospitals, expectedly, are much lower.<\/p>\n
When asked if he would choose a private hospital again now that he knows how costly it is, Lee Teng stressed that he would still prioritise the doctor’s advice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter all, our doctor works at that hospital, so it\u2019s more assuring to follow him. I think the most important thing is that both mother and baby are safe and healthy. We can always earn the money back,” he assured.<\/p>\n
Including prenatal check-up costs during Gina’s pregnancy, they’ve spent a six-figure sum on the baby. Yet while the costs \u201csound scary,\u201d part of the bill could be covered by Medisave and insurance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope people won\u2019t be scared by our bill, this was just a unique case,” he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Singapore government is quite supportive of childbirth. As long as you go to a government facility for delivery and checkups, there are many subsidies available,” added Gina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s no surprise that having a child in Singapore is expensive, but it can cost even more when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,100563],"class_list":{"0":"post-149416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lee-teng"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}