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This link and the Walrus in general won't load, so I haven't read the article.
But, I do have 2 children born in Canada in the past 10 years, and both had a baby-box that we were provided with, which contained tonnes of baby supplies, and a mattress which they slept on for much of the first few months (until they could reach the edges and hit it in their sleep)
So whatever this article is supposed to say, we're either already doing it, or we recently stopped doint it.
How much support new parents get seems to vary by city (and maybe province?).
I've also had two children born in Canada in the past few years, but in different cities (and provinces). Neither gave us a baby box, but the first provided a free and unprompted hearing test right in the recovery room, while the other required us to make a seperate appointment in the weeks following the birth for that same service.
We had to make an appointment a month after birth at a private clinic to deal with a tongue tie affecting feeding which is literally a little snip with some surgical scissors. We had two teams of doctors for labor and delivery for twins. We had specialists and nurses coming out the ass. In Canada we paid $150 to a private nurse four weeks later because no one at the hospital could do that.
Our first also needed a frenotomy, and we had to go to a specialist clinic outside the hospital.
My best understanding of that situation was that they first wanted to make sure it was actually a problem over a week or two of observation. Then, the procedure was technically classified as dental surgery, so a doctor at a hospital couldn't perform it for professional/ethical/insurance reasons.
In our case there was no observation. We didn't have a pediatrician. Yay Canadian healthcare. We went to a medical clinic with a nurse practitioner who did that and circumcisions. That would make me tend to believe it was considered a medical procedure in that province and not dental.
Regardless it's very inefficient and a good reason our healthcare systems are falling apart. There is a dental clinic in most hospitals. In large centers it's staffed like an ER. There certainly was in the hospital we were in. Having worked in EMS I had been in that clinic before.
We fed our baby through a tube for a month for no good reason at the very start of his life when he could have been feeding from his mother or a bottle. Further increasing his chances of needing more healthcare in the future. I don't know. it's frustrating that we have all the science and studies to tell us what is good and bad for us but the very providers of our healthcare don't follow that information in many circumstances.