Father charged to hold his baby for the first time
Updated | By Poelano Malema

After the long months of anticipation and wondering how the baby will look, being afforded the opportunity to finally get to hold him/her is priceless.
But one dad was unfortunately made to pay for this experience. Ryan Grassley took to Reddit to share his shock at receiving a medical bill, stating that he has to fork out a whopping $39.35 (about R550) for skin-to-skin contact with his newborn baby.
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“I had to pay $39.35 to hold my baby after he was born,” he wrote on Reddit.
I had to pay $39.35 to hold my baby after he was born.
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