Infancy

Infant dies after falling ill in parked car

A 3-month-old baby died in a parking lot on the national highway connecting Lamia to Athens early on Friday morning. 

According to local news reports, the infant was in the car with its young Ukrainian parents and its 3-year-old brother.

The family was heading to Athens and stopped at the parking lot outside Lamia to catch some sleep in their car.

Young mother who killed newborn remanded

The 19-year-old woman who confessed to killing her newborn infant in Petroupoli, northwestern Athens, in February has been incarcerated pending trial, following a court decision on Tuesday.

The woman and her 54-year-old mother, who has also been remanded, were arrested last week.

The 19-year-old said it was an unwanted pregnancy.

Demographic Catastrophe for Bulgaria in 2017 - Only 57 175 Babies

Only 57 175 babies were born in 2017 in Bulgaria. That is why the country has experienced a terrible antirecord for the period after 1945. This is the data from the Birth Information System of the Ministry of Health, cited by dir.bg.

From 1 January 2017 to 1 January 2018, newborns in the country are 7809 less than in 2016 when they were a total of 64,894 babies in Bulgaria.

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