A spoonful of luxury helps the medicine go down. One pricey NYC hospital reportedly charging multiple times the going rate per birth in the US is raising eyebrows over the lavish post-partum practice of doling out Chanel gift bags to lucky mothers. Past guests of New York-Presbyterian Alexandra Cohen Hospital for Women and Newborns at Weill Cornell Medical Center — Chloe Tucker Caine from Netflix’s Owning Manhattan among them — have been posting now-viral videos showing the shocked parents unboxing their posh haul, said to be worth hundreds of dollars.
“Wow,” the property-pushing progenitor exclaimed in a TikTok video when she first opened the attractive branded satchel. Caine’s gratis goody bag included full-sized bottles of the designer water-to-foam facial cleanser ($58), Coco Chanel perfume ($110) and a tube of red lipstick ($58). It also contained a note: “Congratulations on being a new mom.
Here’s something special from the hospital.” Showing off her new, bougie face wash, the reality realtor joked she’d finally be able to scrub her face — after going without for three days. “Being a new mom, you don’t realize how overwhelming the whole experience is.
It’s so exciting, but it was a lot and I was already so emotional and so exhausted,” Caine told People . “I just thought it was such a sweet and thoughtful gift from the hospital. It was such a small thing at the time that made me feel so good,” she said.
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