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 recently released its report on 2018’s Best & Worst States to Have a Baby.
Tennessee ranked number 41 on the list.
To determine the most ideal places in the U.S. for parents and their newborns, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 26 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.
Best States to Have a Baby
1 Vermont
2 Massachusetts
3 Minnesota
4 New Hampshire
5 North Dakota
6 Connecticut
7 Colorado
8 Nebraska
9 District of Columbia
10 California
Worst States to Have a Baby
42 Nevada
43 New Mexico
44 Arkansas
45 Georgia
46 West Virginia
47 Oklahoma
48 Louisiana
49 South Carolina
50 Alabama
51 Mississippi