Olesya Filistovich, multi-child mother:
Motherhood for me is life. I live with it, when I find out that I am pregnant, I rejoice at every birth as if it were the first. Our first four were girls, then all the boys came. Dad told the children - he promised that mom will give birth to two more girls a little later, when she has a rest.
Dmitry Pinevich, Minister of Health of Belarus:
This is really one of the most pleasant traditions that Alexander Lukashenko introduced - congratulating the first-born on New Year's Eve, and we give gifts to those very moms, those newborns who were born the very first days of the year. The first from the First. The benefits that relate to the birth of a child in general have not gone away: we have one of the longest sick leave for childbirth, maternity leave is one of the longest, maternity capital, benefits for getting a child.
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