![]() ![]() This box was a version of the so-called “ Finnish baby box.” Since the 1940s, every pregnant woman in Finland has been gifted a baby box by the government. Fitted with a tiny mattress, the box would become my son’s bassinet for the first several months of his life. solved my problem by mailing me a cardboard box containing…another cardboard box. But the bedroom in our tiny Hong Kong apartment didn’t have room for a crib, and it seemed ridiculous to spend hundreds of dollars on a bassinet we’d only use for such a brief period.Īn old friend in the U.S. My husband and I wanted to follow the American Academy of Pediatrics’ safe sleep recommendations, which call for parents to share a room with their baby for the first year, ideally, to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Beginning around my seventh month of pregnancy, I began to obsess about where the baby would sleep. ![]()
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