Table 1. Mean unit cost and total cost of prenatal care, delivery care, hospitalization for childbirth and postpartum care, neonatal care cost, and total investment cost in United States dollars, for pregnant women with diabetes or mild hyperglycemia subjected to hospitalization or outpatient management at CIDP HC-FMB-Unesp, 2007.

Costs	Diabetic inpatients		Diabetic outpatients
	Cesarean delivery	Vaginal delivery	Cesarean delivery	Vaginal delivery
Prenatal care cost per unit	187.84		53.43
Prenatal care total cost	2,160.18		341.95
Cost of delivery	349.10	341.02	349.94	340.52
Unit cost of hospitalization for childbirth and puerperium	189.12	182.26	179.39	173.36
Weighted average cost of hospitalization for childbirth and puerperium	187.06		175.77
Total cost of hospitalization for childbirth and puerperium	907.80	565.03	789.34	606.76
Total cost of hospitalization (during childbirth and puerperium and for childbirth)	1,256.91	906.05	1,139.28	947.28
Total cost of prenatal care + total cost of hospitalization (during childbirth and puerperium and for childbirth)	3,417.10	3,066.23	1,481.24	1,289.24
Weighted average cost of prenatal care + weighted average cost of hospitalization	3,311.84		1,366.04
Cost of hospitalization per newborn:
Rooming-in	6.61		6.61
Nursery	80.04		80.04
Neonatal ICU	281.13		281.13
Total cost of infant hospitalization:
Rooming-in	26.49		23.63
Nursery	509.85		493.04
Neonatal ICU	5,903.77		2,811.31
Final weighted average cost of neonatal care	513.88		210.57
Final weighted average cost of maternal and neonatal care	3,825.73		1,576.62
Total investment cost	76,514.62		47,298.57