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In honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, I wanted to find out why having a baby in the US is so much more expensive than it used to be. But first...
A few months ago, while sifting through boxes in my mother’s basem*nt, I found something interesting: The 1950 hospital bill from when my grandmother gave birth to my mom.
