WALLETHUB News:With August being one of the most popular months for newborn arrival and Americans paying the highest birthing costs in the world, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2017’s Best & Worst States to Have a Baby.
To determine the most ideal places in the U.S. for parents and their newborns, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 20 key measures of cost, health care accessibility and baby-friendliness. The data set ranges from hospital conventional-delivery charges to annual average infant-care costs to pediatricians per capita.
Having a Baby in New Mexico (1=Best; 25=Avg.)
- 21st – Hospital Cesarean-Delivery Charges
- 39th – Rate of Low Birth-Weight
- 41st – Pediatricians & Family Doctors per Capita
- 23rd – Child-Care Centers per Capita
- 34th – Parental-Leave Policy Score
For the full report, please visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-to-have-a-baby/6513/