Baby boxes are lightweight and sturdy cardboard boxes that expectant mothers in Finland have been using as bassinets since the 1930s. Weighing less than 5 pounds, they offer growing families a portable and safe place for their newborn baby to sleep from birth until roughly 6 months of age and have been known to reduce bed sharing - a leading cause of SIDS.

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Bed-sharing, the practice in which parents sleep in the same bed as their babies, is associated with sleep-related deaths in infants, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed. However, a research team at Temple University Hospital (TUH) has now found that face-to-face postpartum education about safe infant sleep, combined with the distribution of a baby box, reduced the rates of bed-sharing during babies’ first 8 days of life. For exclusively breastfed infants, a population at increased risk of bed-sharing, bed-sharing was reduced by 50%.

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Each Finnbin comes with essential baby products that expectant and adoptive parents need to help them seamlessly adjust to life with a newborn. These must-have items include gender neutral clothing up to the age of 12 months old, as well as bath and bed time necessities like towels, thermometers, soaps and lotions. Best of all, the cardboard box that includes these essentials is not just any ordinary box - it also doubles as a bassinet.

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