LOGAN – Given its propensity to having large families, it’s easy to imagine that Utah offers the best of all environments for having babies.

Not so, according to a recent nationwide study by researchers at Autism 360, who found that the Beehive State was projected to rank ninth in the U.S. for having the strongest support network for new parents in 2026.

Utah’s position in that state ranking was assured due to having the nation’s lowest infant mortality rate, its highest vaccination rate and the highest per capita birth rate at 60 live births per every 1,000 women.

The analysts at the autism advocacy group based in North Carolina say that having a baby in America has never been more expensive or more complicated.

Those experts report that the cost of childbirth often rival that of purc

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