The Best & Worst U.S. States to Have a Baby

Source: WalletHub

Is your state baby-friendly? The personal finance site WalletHub just came out with its rankings of the best and worst states in which to have a baby in 2016.

Based on such metrics as hospitals’ delivery charges, C-section rates, average annual infant-care costs, infant mortality rates, and child-care centers per capita, here are the 10 best states:

  1. Vermont
  2. Maine
  3. Connecticut
  4. Minnesota
  5. New Hampshire
  6. Hawaii
  7. Oregon
  8. Massachusetts
  9. North Dakota
  10. Washington

And here are the 10 worst:

  1. Mississippi
  2. Louisiana
  3. Alabama
  4. New York
  5. Georgia
  6. West Virginia
  7. Nevada
  8. Arkansas
  9. Florida
  10. North Carolina

Our lovely state of Iowa did very well, falling in 14th place for the best place to have a baby. We'll take that. AND, it's to no one's surprise that most of the BAD states are in the south, because having a baby with your sister doesn't count.

 

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