{"id":633315,"date":"2026-09-23T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633315\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:58:09","slug":"maternity-in-figures-how-much-private-care-costs-and-why-some-mothers-decide-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633315\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternity in figures: How much private care costs \u2013 and why some mothers decide to pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ella (not her real name) was on holiday in Greece with her partner when she had a traumatic miscarriage.\u00a0 She went through the painful event in the Greek public health system. \u201cWe had no support,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were pushed from pillar to post, and it was really isolating.\u201d Back home in Ireland, when Ella got pregnant again, she decided to go private. \u201cI knew I needed that additional reassurance and peace of mind that private maternity care could offer me.\u201d \u201cWe had our first appointment at 12 weeks, and from 32 weeks onwards we met every two weeks. It\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate with us \u2013 7 years of The Currency<br \/>\nUnlock full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal with an annual membership and receive a FREE Samsonite Spectrolite Briefcase \u2013 worth \u20ac175 delivered to your door.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Ella (not her real name) was on holiday in Greece with her partner when she had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,396,61,60,1422],"class_list":["post-633315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-slaintecare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}