Review of the box for a newborn Bashny.Net

Parents, have you heard about the boxes for newborns, or maybe you held them in your hands? Bourne box, or baby box, is a basic set of things you need to care for your baby in the first months of life. Where can I get one? In civilized countries, such a box is an additional targeted state support for young parents, which is issued to a woman either before childbirth or after discharge from the hospital.



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Dr. Evgeny Komarovsky conducted a test drive of two boxes - Finnish, which is more than 70 years old, and Ukrainian, introduced only in September 2018. What's in the baby box and isn't the government saving on kids? Let's see!

Newborn boxes were first introduced in Finland in 1938 and were given only to low-income mothers to solve the problems of declining fertility and high infant mortality.

After 10 years, the government decided to give boxes to all mothers without exception who visited a doctor in the first 4 months of pregnancy. In recent decades, newborn It turned into a kind of tradition and became a real rite of initiation into motherhood.





Every year the composition of the Finnish box changes. For example, first in boxes put cuts of fabric, because in the first half of the twentieth century, women sewed clothes on babies, but in the 50s began to put ready-made clothes in boxes.

As now, and 70 years ago, the box itself was made in the form of a durable cradle, which could serve as the first bed of the baby. And in order to popularize breastfeeding, it was decided not to put bottles and nipples in the box.

In addition to the components, every year the color range of fabrics in the box changed. If before all things were predominantly white, today in the box put clothes, blankets and beds of neutral and universal shades.



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Other countries have also adopted Finland’s experience. For example, in India, a mosquito net and medicines for childbirth and the postpartum period are placed in a box, in South Africa, boxes are made not of cardboard, but of plastic so that it is convenient to bathe the baby in them. And in Canada, in the box for the baby put a video lesson as new parents to care for the baby at first.

Let's take a look at the Finnish mother box and take it apart with Dr. Komarovsky!

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Ukrainian families are no less fortunate than Finnish: from September 1 of this year, new parents are given boxes for newborns no worse than Finnish ones (at least so the government claims). Boxes for babies and their mothers are not subsidies to be reclaimed.

No pregnancy certificates are required, boxes are issued to each newborn when discharged from the hospital along with a birth certificate. If a woman gives birth to twins, she will get two boxes, if triplets – three.





The approximate cost of one box, according to the government of Ukraine, is about 5 thousand hryvnias, and given that the country on average is born about 400 thousand children annually, in 2019, the program of boxes for newborns will cost the state almost 2 billion hryvnias.

Dr. Evgeny Komarovsky decided to test drive the long-awaited Ukrainian boxing and compare it with a similar one from Finland. Do young parents need this? What is included in the box for newborns Ukraine?

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If you live in Ukraine and have already received a box for the baby, rather share your impressions in the comments. And if your country still does not have such a state initiative, do you think the government should give a mother and a newborn a package of things necessary in the first months of life? What things should be put in a box, and which should be abandoned?