Baby Spain Blog

The My Baby Spain team can report that in a desperate bid to reduce spending in Spain, the prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced yesterday that the baby cheque would be one of the areas cut.

For the past few years, new parents in Spain would receive a €2,500 cheque to give their new family a healthy start in life. It was originally introduced 3 years ago in an attempt to encourage more births in Spain but now appears to be more of a burden on the country’s resources and from 1st January 2011 will no longer be handed out.

With the 3rd largest deficit in Europe – ominously after Greece and Ireland, perhaps drastic measures to save the country from following in the Greek footsteps is no bad thing but it does mean that hundreds of thousands of mothers currently pregnant lose out.

Some may argue that if you cannot afford to have a baby then you shouldn’t have one but if you’re a new parent pregnant with your first child there will always be something that you perhaps haven’t factored into your costs and the baby cheque would provide a more than pleasant relief for a bit of leeway with your baby spending.

We shall be updating our website and page on Baby Healthcare Spain accordingly asap! Get in touch and let us know your thoughts.