Comments on: Head west, stinky hippies

By: MommyGoddess

MommyGoddess — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:28:36 +0000

ROFL at the Cook County post… considering I had my son at Christ in Oak Lawn. And now have *2* friends with LAWSUITS against that particular hospital. Throw in the fact that I had EMERGENCY surgery at COUNTY, where I WOKE UP DURING THE PROCEDURE…

Yeah. I think I could see why they’re at the low 20’s. Um. Yeah. Definitely.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:28:18 +0000

Hmmm… Portland is “perfect for socialists who don’t like to shave their armpits”?? Actually you’ve got the socialist part right (might account for why Portland is a great place to have a baby - the Oregon Health Plan might be providing maternal care to a greater percentage of women than other cities??) but we all pretty much shave our armpits here. Force of habit, I guess…

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:29:14 +0000

What I know about Austin is that it is a Party City/College town, one of the highest on the list of Party College Campus towns or whatever they call them. Every Friday night some of the downtown streets were roped off from traffic and turned into a block (pleural as in more than one block)party. I do not remember, maybe it was every night instead of Fridays and weekends. Two of my sister’s kids went to college there. There is a lot of bar hopping and country and western music and the kids all have a lot of fun. I was very surprised to see this city on the above list. I agree it is in a beautiful part of Texas. It is spread out over a large area and it is the capital city of Texas, but I still am surprised that it is on the list. Maybe a lot of the college kids settle down there and make it have a large population of young parents. There are some other places named Austin, but I assume this is meant to be Austin, Texas.

By: Erika

Erika — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:33:25 +0000

(I hope that my previous post doesn’t get posted, since it was an accidental “send” thanks to an overly sensitive mousepad.)

Great post. I found their list annoying for many reasons. All in all, the sad (and only real) thing that Fit Pregnancy’s “best cities” list shows is the sad state of health care for women and children in this country. [quote comment="138609"]Bottom of the list? Detroit. So at least we’re better than the Motor City. Which is like being a better parent than Britney Spears.

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That’s awesome! Sorry, everytime I think of Detroit, I flash to that movie “8 Mile” with Eminem.
Yeah, not what appears to be a very baby-friendly place, to me………[/quote]

Well, you might be surprised, if you visited it. “Eight Mile” represents only one aspect of life in the Motor City.

Detroit and the Detroit Metro area are more baby friendly than you’d imagine. Okay, it’s not Boston (I know, I lived there most of my life) with its excellent teaching hospitals and some of the best schools in the nation; but I still had access to excellent prenatal and natal care, breastfeeding support, a great OB and midwife and a fabulous hospital–I even got wireless fetal monitors. I have access to parks, museums, networks of parents, kid’s programs and libraries. And people here are less likely to get in your business when you nurse in public than they are in my dear Puritanical Boston.

I’m not bitter about Detroit being at the bottom of the list–especially since I don’t actually live *in* Detroit. The list and their criteria is just plain flawed.

By: Rita

Rita — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:31:28 +0000

LMAO, you know I’ve LIVED in four of those cities (areas): the Minneapolis area, the Boston area, the Chicago area and right in Austin city limits.

Yeah, the Minneapolis area is very family friendly, that’s all I can say. EVERYONE here breastfeeds. I was totally the freaky one out with that. The hospital where I delivered had several midwife clinics housed inside it (and only one OB/GYN clinic). It is a lot crunchier than you might think, and it’s not just because the snow has sublimed in the sub-zero temperatures.

I also delivered (Katie) in Austin and it was pretty crunchy, too, which seems weird since the big pink Capitol building is downtown Austin. But, it does have that funky transient element. Lots of young parents in Austin, which I think sways the curve to the non-mainstream side.

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:11:16 +0000

Bottom of the list? Detroit. So at least we’re better than the Motor City. Which is like being a better parent than Britney Spears.

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That’s awesome! Sorry, everytime I think of Detroit, I flash to that movie “8 Mile” with Eminem.
Yeah, not what appears to be a very baby-friendly place, to me………