This year to the typical "news" of the first babies of the year is added the coletilla, the first children of the year without baby check (and the latter if such help).
We will have the opportunity to analyze the birth figures on the last day of the year, but it is expected that they would be higher than in previous years, if we take into account the rush to get the 2500 euros of the baby check.
A help that from now on is suppressed and that surely many families will miss, at least as far as they can give 2500 euros in the care of a baby.
Little Amalia is the newborn who cashed the last baby check: a Rioja girl who was born from natural childbirth a minute before zero hours on January 1, in a birth that was naturally advanced a few days. Twelve minutes after midnight Another girl came to the world in Castellón, whose parents did not charge the baby check.
Jasmime is the first Catalan girl of the year who has arrived without the 2500 euros under her arm. At 00:21 hours the first newborn arrived from Castilla-La Mancha (Oscar was born in Talavera de la Reina), and four minutes later he did in El Ejido the first baby of the year born in public hospitals in Andalusia.
The first Ceuta boy arrived at a quarter to one, at the same time that the first newborn in the Basque Country also did, specifically in Vitoria: it is a girl, Assmae.
Sara was the first Galician to be born in 2011, at 0:54 in the University Hospital Complex of Santiago. At one o'clock in the morning the first Asturian of the year arrived; Twenty-five minutes later Rafael Méndez Lorca Bilal K. came to the hospital, a little boy who has become the first Murcian of 2011.
More has been waiting for the first Madrid to reach the world in the new year, Adriana, a girl who was born at 01:40 in the Doce de Octubre Hospital with 2.6 kilos of weight.
At the same time the first birth of the year in Extremadura took place at the Hospital of Plasencia (Cáceres), also a girl, as it was the first to be born in the Canary Islands, specifically at 02:02 hours in Gran Canaria. At three in the morning the first baby was born in Melilla and already at 8:05 the first Navarrese, Rayana.
After this review of the first babies of the year, we have to comment that it is significant that, in times of crisis, apart from many other cuts, it is the birth aid that is restricted.
I am not an economist or a politician, but it seems clear to me that in a country with the lowest birth rates, many other measures could be tried to encourage them, which would also help the economy and that, however, do not appear in political programs.
We will look to the future with optimism to expect better times, but for now we already have the first children without baby check. Anyway, congratulations to all these recent parents and their families.
