Personal experiences · healthcare
Pregnancy childbirth experience: Cost to give birth in Singapore
The narrator describes the spouse's maternity expenses, including 11 gynaecology visits totalling about S$2,500 and scans costing about S$1,460. The narrator says they chose a single-occupancy room at Thomson Medical and had planned a caesarean section. The post discusses KKH and other public-hospital options only as general comparisons; it does not report a KKH birth or a S$5,715 bill. The experience date and whether the reported amounts are final bills or out-of-pocket payments are unstated.
- Narrator
- Partner of a person who gave birth and shared a maternity-cost account
- Voice
- First person
- Population
- unknown
- Source type
- social media
- Publisher
- Lemon8
- Published
- 2025-03-08
- Sensitive topics
- reproductive health, financial
What the narrator reports
- Ward class
- private
- Delivery
- planned caesarean
- Hospital type
- private
- Parents' status
- unknown
Reported amounts and durations are one person’s dated figures. Official rates and prices come from the linked knowledge records.
- Reported amounts · gynaecology visits
- SGD 2,500 (unclear)
- Reported amounts · scans
- SGD 1,460 (unclear)
Caveats
- The page is dated 8 March 2025, but the experience and billing periods are not stated.
- The full public page was fetched. It is a single self-reported social-media account; medical and financial details are not independently verified.
- The post mentions a planned caesarean and a single room at Thomson Medical. It mentions KKH only as a general example of a lower-cost public-hospital option; those comparisons are not this narrator's reported experience.
- Amounts are the narrator's reported figures; cost basis and final bill status are unclear.
Sources
- Cost to give birth in Singapore Accessed
Collection as of 2026-10-16 · An expanding collection. Published counts show available knowledge, not complete coverage of Singapore.
Machine-readable: Markdown · JSON · sgtest.childbirth.private-thomson-cost-account-2025