In Finland, every mother-to-be, regardless of her income and family status, receives a special box from the state with a set of essential items for the baby.

The kit includes clothes, rompers, diapers and the essentials needed to care for a newborn. It’s common

to joke there that all you have to do is put a mattress in that box and you’ll get a nice bed. that is, everything is there.

It is noted that as a result of sleeping children in those boxes, the least mortality of children is registered in Finland.

The Finnish government started distributing boxes for children back in 1938. At first, only poor families received it, but later this decision was extended to everyone.

Heidi Lieziwezi, a specialist at the Finnish Social Insurance Institute, says that the main purpose of the boxes was to convince

women to use medical care. To receive a box or maternity grant, women had to visit a doctor or a government antenatal clinic before the fourth month of pregnancy.

Thus, the box not only provided the young mothers with everything they needed, but also taught them to

use the services of hospitals and doctors, then only in the newly born social medical system of the country.

In the 1930s, Finland was quite a poor country and infant mortality was high; 65 out of 1000 babies died under one year of age. However, this sad statistic has started to be corrected very quickly.