Under the de Blasio Administration, the Health Department and the Administration of Children Services have worked together to
promote safe sleep practices.
These are used by hospitals all over the U.S. and Canada, in part to
promote safe sleep practices.
Throughout the month OCFS (DSS) will highlight programs including,
promoting safe sleep practices through the Safe Sleep Coalition, Healthy Families Home Visiting Program, Kinship Caregiver Program
Not exact matches
In Baltimore Maryland, for example, one community health poster
promotes a «
safe infant
sleep» message called the A, B, C's of
safe infant
sleep... The poster recommends: A for infant
sleeping «alone» (a dangerous
practice); B for the infant
sleeping on it's back; and C, for the infant
sleeping in a crib.
In addition to an advertising campaign, educational posts on boppy.com about
safe sleep and information tags on products, Boppy has worked with USA Today and Media Planet to continue
promoting safe baby
sleep practices on as many platforms as possible.
Certainly infants
sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room
sleeping), infants
sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to
promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like
sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as
safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these
practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant
safe co-
sleeping, breastfeeding and infants
sleeping on their backs (supine).
Information on protective factors that may help prevent abuse, including dangers of shaking a child,
safe sleep practices, psychological effects of repeated exposure to domestic violence,
safe and age - appropriate forms of discipline, how to
promote a child's social and emotional health, and how to support positive parent - child relationships.