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The Philadelphia’s Temple University Hospital has been practicing a “baby box” project that was designed to educate new mom’s about co-sleeping with their newborn babies.
These boxes were designed in order to help the decrease the co-sleeping rates because they say that when co-sleeping is done incorrectly it raises the infant mortality.
According to the Philly.com, some reasons why parents or mothers co-sleep could be because it’s simply a part of their cultures, their parents did it with them, they have no space for a crib or they couldn’t afford a crib.
The baby boxes are equipped to be a makeshift bassinet for the baby to sleep in because they include sheets, a firm mattress. The boxes also come with some essential baby supplies that your baby would need such as onesies, thermometer, a sleep sack, board book to help you put your baby asleep and other things too.
The Baby Box Company has worth around $80 to $100 each and the program at the hospital will go out to 3,000 mommies and their newborns.
Dr. Megan Heere told ABC News in an interview, “We weren’t sure how people were going to react to putting their babies in a box, but it’s been an overwhelmingly positive response.” Their hospital has the highest mortality rate for infants in the country, but U.S. isn’t the location that the boxes exist.
In Finland, their government gives the baby boxes to every new mommy, this is drop their infant mortality rate down. It’s already worked for their country because in 2013, they had 3 deaths to every 1,000 babies.
