Because Finland's infant mortality rate is the lowest in the world is growing babies with cardboard

In Finland 75 years ago the government pregnant women "Cardboard box"I am giving it. It is a box like a starter kit for pregnant women that clothes, sheets, toys and so on are contained in this box and the box itself can also be used as a baby's bed, but this is the infant death in Finland It is also trusted to the extent that some argue that it is the factor that makes the rate the lowest in the world.

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This box, a gift from the government to pregnant women, continues from the 1930s, and is presented to any pregnant woman who was born. In addition, it is possible for a pregnant woman to receive a box or receive a cash of 140 euros (about 18,000 yen), but 95% of pregnant women choose to receive a box.

Box tradition began in 1938, originally given only to low-income families. In the box there is a tightly packed what pregnant women need to look after infants and this seems to have led to pregnant women going to the doctor themselves to doctors and nurses. Finland in the 1930s was a poor welfare state, of which 65 babies in 1000 had died at that time, but this infant mortality has improved rapidly over the following decades.


National Institute of Health and Welfare of FinlandAccording to Mika Gissler, a professor of Mika Gissler, "Since the maternity box that has been in use since the 1940 's (cardboard boxes available from the government as a pregnant woman) and care for pregnant women, and the national health insurance system and central hospital network that began in the 1960' s A series of welfare systems "that a rapid decline in infant mortality rate occurred.

The contents of the maternity box provided in 2013 are as follows

Mattress · Mattress cover · Sheet · Duvet cover · Blanket · Baby bed to become an infant bed · Snow suit · Hat · Mittens · Shoes · Light clothing with hoods · Overalls of knit · Socks · Knit hat · Eyebrow hat · Movement Easy up and down clothes · Color and pattern leggings that can be used with both men and women · Hooded bath towels · Nail cutting shears · Hair brushes · Toothbrushes · Thermometers for baths · Diapers · Creams · Cloths for washing bodies · Cloth diapers sets · Infants For gauze, picture book, okay toy, chewy bra, condom

ByHugovk

For each generation of Finland up to the age of 75,Getting a boxSeems to be like a passage ritual to become a mother.

Reija Klemetti, 49 years old, still remembered that she went to the post office for her children and said, "I was very happy when I received the box, I was excited and my mother and Relatives, friends, etc. wanted to know the contents of the maternity box I got very much. " Her in-law mother said that he was pretty reliant on the box he got at the time of pregnancy in the 1960s when she was a pregnant woman, and said that everything needed to raise a baby was in the box.

ByJonny

And Mr. Solja, a 23-year-old daughter of Klemetti, said she received the boxes she used from her mother and grandmother, and three generations of mothers have raised their children using boxes , You can see how this box is rooted in Finland.

ByVisa Kopu

The contents of the maternity box change year by year. Since the mothers from 1930 to the 1940's were used to making clothes, cloth was contained in the box, but since many cloths were needed during the Second World War, Some of the contents of the box have been replaced by paper. In the 1950's, many ready-made clothes were used, and from the 60's to the 70's a new stretchy fiber was used for the fabric. Disposable diapers will lose support from around the year 2000 due to environmental problems and cloth diapers will be able to be put in the box again.

ByVisa Kopu

"Once a parent and a baby were sleeping in the same bed, it is considered better to stop this and providing a box as a bed will lead to a baby and parents sleeping separately "Says Panu Pulma, a professor in Finnish at the University of Helsinki. To bring up children with breastfeeding, there are no milk bottles or powdered milk in the box. Furthermore, Mr. Pulma says, "It is now one of the goals of distributing boxes, breeding breastfeeding is now being achieved."

ByElinaS 28

As you can see, in Finland the box seems to be a symbol representing equality and the importance of children.

ByChris Richards