Magazine ranks best American cities for babies
The magazine Fit Pregnancy has released a list of what it has determined to be the best
places in America to have a baby by examining 47 criteria including fertility services, maternal and infant health
risk, access to hospitals and doctors, safety, affordability, stroller friendliness, and birthing options.
Not surprising at all: Portland, Oregon, home of Blogging Baby's Queen Bee Sarah Gilbert and former home of our own Stefania Butler was named No. 1, based primarily on its low maternal mortality rate, above average number of obstetrician-gynecologists, and small number of low-weight births, not to mention the thousands of Californians who have moved there for the sole purpose of having children.
The rest of the top five cities were Boston, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Denver, so most of the rest of us Blogging Baby chumps can be proud. (Seattle came in at No. 6). Detroit, home of Melissa Summers, ranked 48th, or almost-as-bad-as-Vegas. Sorry Karen, Trinidad wasn't on the list. Probably because it actually is paradise. Check out the list here to see where your city ranks.
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Missy 1-26-2006 @ 10:26PM
I find it interesting that most of the cities in Texas rank abysmally low for all factors except for fertility treatments. Good grief, Texas. Why don't we work on taking care of our moms and babies after they make it into the world, not just trying to get them here. (Not that helping moms get pregnant isn't a good thing but I find the juxtaposition of that with the rest of the ratings very, very sad.)
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eden 1-26-2006 @ 11:31PM
My daughter was born in Colorado (we lived there for a year) and I can say that Denver is a great baby-friendly city (most of Colorado was baby-friendly in our experience). Now that we're back in Erie, PA we *really* miss the family restrooms we found throughout Colorado.
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