The holiday season was about nine months ago. Thus, it’s now baby season.
The has found that August is the most popular birth month. And Coloradans are in luck, because the state was recently ranked by WalletHub as the seventh best state to have a baby.
compared 26 key measures across the 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine the most ideal place to give birth. Factors included birthing costs, health care accessibility and family friendliness.
Colorado’s best ranking was in the “baby friendliness” category where the state placed fourth. Baby friendliness was ranked according to each state’s parental leave policies, number of mom groups, number of child care centers, number of nationally accredited child care centers and birth weight.
The state’s other category rankings:
- 38th in cost of health care
- 8th in quality of health care
- 14th in family friendliness
The study found that the best state to have a baby in is Vermont, followed by Massachusetts, Minnesota and New Hampshire. On the other end, the worst state to give birth in is Mississippi, followed by Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana.
