Head of “Growing Lithuania”: our country is disappearing and Kėdainiai will soon disappear – ALWAYS
Asta Speičytė – Radzevičienė was once a successful woman whose life seemed to go through butter. Good work in the tourism sector, a loving man, nice houses, and some offspring in the plans. the first pregnancy and the birth of a daughter at three months premature turned her life upside down. “Everything I did before has become meaningless to me,” says Asta, who is leading the national initiative “Growing Lithuania”, today.
For ten years now, Asta has been talking about a dramatic decline in the birth rate in Lithuania. But assures that the pandemic has further adjusted its back. Unfortunately, on the downside.
According to Asta, the life habits of young people are changing significantly. “Young people also want to travel, spend their time and money, and buy a home, so the planning of children is postponed to a much later time, after thirty,” the people of Delfi TV’s “Everyday Heroes” want to say.
According to the heroine of the show, the birth rate has dropped by about 20 percent in the last five years. One of the policies is the calculation that after 8 years Kėdainiai will not remain. Vilnius will not be left behind in thirty.
It is not in vain that Asta talks about children as the greatest value of the country. She knows how cardinal children can change lives. Her daughter Margarita, who was born three months earlier 13 years ago, shook her and her husband’s lives badly.
Asta still remembers the day she went to a seemingly regular consultation with a doctor in the middle of her pregnancy, which she was very much looking forward to. That day she is looking for the sex of the baby. Unfortunately, instead of happy news, she heard the baby suffocate.
During the pandemic period, there were no stories in the Lithuanian media about the success of families who gave birth to premature babies during this period. Not only do mothers miss a posting a few months later, they are isolated and separated from their newborns during this period. “The situation in hospitals is tragic,” says A. Speičytė-Radzevičienė.
Delfi TV show “Heroes of Everyday Life” – Monday at 21:00.