«How to have healthy children». Responses to the falling birth rate in Norway, c. 1900-1940 Blom, Ida Salud maternoinfantil Consultorios de lactantes Esterilización Noruega Mother health Infant health Health stations Sterilization Norway This paper focuses on initiatives to improve infant health, as they developed in Norway especially during the interwar period. Falling birth rates were felt as a menace to the survival of the nation and specific initiatives were taken to oppose it. But crises engendered by the reduction in fertility strengthened opportunities for introducing policies to help the fewer children born survive and grow up to become healthy citizens. Legislation supporting mothers started in 1892 increased in the interwar years including economic features. Healthy mother and baby stations and hygienic clinics, aimed at controlling births were developed by voluntary organisations inspired from France and England respectively. A sterilization law (1934) paralleled some German policies. 2022-10-26T11:23:32Z 2022-10-26T11:23:32Z 2008 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Blom, Ida. «“How to have healthy children”. Responses to the falling birth rate in Norway, c. 1900-1940». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 2008, Vol. 28, p. 151-174, https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/118811. 0211-9536 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/77573 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional Universidad de Granada