10/21/2022
✨SAFE INFANT SLEEP👶🏻👶🏽
Each year, about 3,500 infants die from a sleep-related death in the United States.
There are steps you - and everyone who cares for your baby - can take to ensure safe infant sleep. Following steps for the first year of your baby’s life will help you and your baby sleep safe and sound.
🔅Place your baby on their back to sleep for every sleep, including naps.
🔅Use a firm, flat mattress (not inclined) with a well-fitted sheet.
🔅Share your room with your baby. Keep baby near your bed on their own safety-approved sleep surface like a crib, bassinet, or portable play yard with no other people or pets.
🔅Keep everything out of your baby’s sleep area. No blankets, pillows, quilts, bumper pads, crib liners, sitting devices, toys or other objects.
🔅Avoiding placing your baby to sleep on a couch, armchair, or seating device like a swing, baby seat, or car safety seat (EXCEPT WHEN IN CAR).
👶🏽This information is not just for parents! Share with everyone who cares for baby so they understand anda practice Safe Infant sleep.👶🏻
Learn more ways to reduce baby’s risk:
https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/safesleepbasics/risk/reduce
Source: https://dshs.texas.gov/safeinfantsleep