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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

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Re: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

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They should do this in the UK. From observing the locals, the maternity grant (until yanked by the government) was used to buy designer gear for the mother, cigarettes and some expensive fashionable buggy for the baby (usually topped up by the baby's grandparents).

Unfortunately essential stuff was forgotten.

This solves those problems.

Re: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

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post #3

The BBC seems to have taken the story down. You can see a list of what goes in the box here: http://www.kela.fi/web/en/maternitypackage

seems to be working fine for me as of 22:53 PST

Not working for me either at the moment, but it's in the search index :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=finnish%20babies

Edit: Had the archive url here. Google cache instead :

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Re: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

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They should do this in the UK. From observing the locals, the maternity grant (until yanked by the government) was used to buy designer gear for the mother, cigarettes and some expensive fashionable buggy for the baby (usually topped up by the baby's grandparents). Unfortunately essential stuff was forgotten. This solves those problems.

Same as Australia in most cases unfortunately.. They have now removed the "Baby Bonus".

Re: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

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They should do this in the UK. From observing the locals, the maternity grant (until yanked by the government) was used to buy designer gear for the mother, cigarettes and some expensive fashionable buggy for the baby (usually topped up by the baby's grandparents). Unfortunately essential stuff was forgotten. This solves those problems.

Could you publish a citation referencing these problems?

Re: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

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Title of this article sounds a lot worst than what the article presents (thankfully). This is off topic, but as refreshing as this article is, I wonder how many readers avoided reading this due to the title as it could've been a very depressing article.
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