Designed so that every child is given an equal start in life, the Baby Boxes are full of essentials like baby clothes, blankets, books and bibs.
Ms Haughey, who when Children’s Minister had responsibility for the scheme, has said Baby Boxes are helping to ease the financial pressure on families
Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey has welcomed new figures that reveal 39,619 Baby Boxes have been delivered across NHS Lanarkshire since the scheme was introduced in 2017.
Designed so that every child is given an equal start in life, the Baby Boxes are full of essentials like baby clothes, blankets, books and bibs.
The box also includes nursing pads and a thermometer, and can be used itself as a bed for newborns.
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Ms Haughey, who when Children’s Minister had responsibility for the scheme, has said Baby Boxes are helping to ease the financial pressure on families during the cost of living crisis.
In total, 346,959 boxes have now been distributed to parents across Scotland since the project’s inception.
Ms Haughey told Lanarkshire Live: “It’s fantastic that almost 40,000 Baby Boxes have been delivered to families living under the NHS Lanarkshire health board since the Scottish government introduced them in 2017.
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“We know that raising a child is an expensive endeavour, and these jam-packed Baby Boxes help to ensure that each child born in Scotland is given an equal start in life and is supporting families during a cost of living crisis.
“The Baby Box is part of the Scottish Government offering to support new families – alongside 1140 hours of free childcare for three, four and eligible two-year-olds, and giving families financial certainty by scrapping the two-child benefit cap and introducing the Scottish Child Payment.”
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To get a Baby Box you need to be registered with a midwife and living in Scotland.
Your midwife will fill in a registration card with you at either your 18 to 20 week appointment or 28-week appointment
They will then send the registration card away and you don’t need to do anything else.
Your Baby Box it will be delivered between four weeks before your due date up until your due date.
Visit https://www.mygov.scot/baby-box to find out further details on Baby Boxes.
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