A coalition of over 50 advocacy organizations, professional associations, faith communities, representatives of diverse racial and ethnic communities, and business groups dedicated to
promoting safe infant sleep and breastfeeding.
Not exact matches
In addition to their efforts to work with the healthcare community to
promote safe sleep education, they have partnered with leading
infant health and safety organizations to support their mutual interest in educating parents to keep all babies
safe.
«Dear Fisher - Price... as a pediatrician and parent consumer, I believe it irresponsible to
promote the Rock n» Play ™ Sleeper as an
safe, overnight
sleeping option for
infants.
2007 Texas State Department of Health and Human Services: «Protecting Texas Children Conference» Key Mote Speaker Houston, Texas October 1 and 2, 2007 Biology, Culture, Epidemiology of Mother -
Infant Cosleeping,
Promoting Safe Sleep (Pt 2)
The lighter
sleep, that all of these maternal - induced arousals
promote, gives rise to what we consider to be «
safer sleep» for
infants especially for the level of neurological immaturity through which all human
infants must pass.
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.
It is important to take into account the many different ways that mothers and babies
sleep in order to
promote safe mother -
infant sleep.
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).
I think we all want to
promote safest sleeping solutions, but I don't know how we do that when the
infant concerned simply won't countenance it.
A product of the Healthy Native Babies Project, this workbook packet explores ways to
promote safe sleep messages and prevent Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) among American Indian / Alaska Native
infants.
Virginia: Virginia Dept. of Social Services launches campaign to
promote safer sleep for
infants, Sept. 21, 2017