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The Georgia Supreme Court has held that a parent can be made to pay expenses of childbirth and maternity, so the mother certainly can seek those.
Glen Edward Ashman, Separation Attorney in the great state of Georgia.
Georgia's Supreme Court (in a 1993 case, Cowell v Matthews) was clear about what the duty of support entails: "It is generally understood that proper prenatal care is critical to assist a woman in meeting the demands of pregnancy, labor, and childbirth and to ensure that the young are protected from birth complications and abnormalities. If a child's mother has no prenatal care, that child's life can be an uphill climb. He or she has a greater risk of mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and even death. Special education and health care services for these children are costly to taxpayers....A healthy pregnancy and birth are essential for a healthy child. Therefore, the conclusion is inescapable that the duty to provide for a child's maintenance and protection incorporates expenses incurred by the mother due to pregnancy and birth. This is especially true in view of (a) changing family roles and the modern economic partnership concept of parenthood, (b) growing recognition that the relationship between a father and his child is important for more reasons than the provision of food, clothing, and shelter, and (c) efforts in recent years to eliminate sex discrimination....Today, child support means more than the obligation to pay money because of a court order. Rather, it is viewed as the intrinsic, natural, and moral responsibility of both parents, be they married or not, to provide for the emotional, spiritual, and economic needs of their dependent children. ...The care of children is an invaluable gift that must be bestowed by both parents not only to ensure the survival of the next generation, but also to provide the basis for that generation to raise the following one. Such a glorious succession must be made to work. Otherwise, the consequences for individuals and society will be devastating. To relieve the father in this case of any responsibility for the financial burden of bringing his child into the world would be to step back towards a time when fathers bore no responsibility at all to children born out of wedlock, instead of forward into a time of shared parental responsibility."
Rachel Aliza Elovitz, Child Custody Attorney in the great state of Georgia.
Keep flailing.