For 75 years, babies in Finland slept in cardboard boxes.

For 75 years, babies in Finland slept in cardboard boxes.

While this idea may seem awful to most parents we know, it is fully accepted in Finland, and Scotland is preparing for the same move.

However, it is much more about these cardboard boxes than we would expect. Babies who use boxes benefit from the best care of their parents and family. The box is simply part of a special package that is given as a gift by the Finnish government to new mothers.

This box, which will soon be available in Scotland, is called the Beginner’s Kit. In the box are many items that a parent needs at the beginning of the most important career of his life. The box includes: clothes, bedding, toys, and a mattress at the bottom, which makes it possible to transform the box into a small crib.

Finland, which has the lowest child mortality rate in the world, initially started the “Children’s Box” program in the 1930s to encourage an equal start to life for all children, regardless of their parents’ economic position. The program worked extremely well, and now Scotland is following suit.

This is what Nicola Sturgeaon, the Prime Minister of Scotland, told the BBC: “We promise a box with all the necessary items for a newborn, we will give such a box at the birth of every child”.

The baby box is a small step in a responsible movement that Scotland wants to take as far as possible in terms of caring for newborns. When will we see such care and such movement in SUA as well?