Safe Sleep
This page contains information for parents, caregivers, and health professionals on safe sleep for infants, including placing infants to sleep on their backs, safe crib environments, and related topics. Materials are listed with the most recent items first.
Helping Baby Back To Sleep | En Español. (2009). Resource Center. Advice for parents on helping infants sleep comfortably on their backs.
Safe Sleep Around the Clock: Birth to 12 Months. (2009). Resource Center. Tips for parents on where infants should sleep, where not to sleep, making the sleep area safe, and breastfeeding.
Parent's Guide to Safe Sleep: Helping You to Reduce the Risk of SIDS (rev. ed.). (2008). Healthy Child Care America. Also available in Spanish. Includes information about spreading the word on safe sleep practices.
A Child Care Provider's Guide to Safe Sleep: Helping You to Reduce the Risk of SIDS (rev. ed.). (2008). Healthy Child Care America. Also available in Spanish. Safe sleep policies and practices for child care facilities and for anyone who cares for an infant.
Infant Sleep Position and SIDS: Questions and Answers for Health Care Providers. (rev. ed.). (2007). National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. SIDS facts and advice health professionals should give to parents on such topics as choking risks, back sleeping, child care, sleep surfaces, pacifiers, positional plagiocephaly, and others.
Model Hospital Policy Manual and Tool Kit: Incorporating Infant Safe Sleep Practices in a Health Care Setting/Tool Kit for Educating Parents and Caregivers About Infant Safe Sleep. (2007). Allegheny County Health Department. Discussion of reasons given for not following infant safe sleep practices and topics related to SIDS and safe sleep.
SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment (AAP): Policy Statement | Technical Report
14 Ways to Protect Your Baby From SIDS: Safe Sleep Advice From the Experts. (2011) By Rachel Moon, M.D. and Fern Hauck, M.D. Published by Parenting Press.
Sleep in Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women Knowledge Path. (2011) MCH Library. This knowledge path directs readers to a selection of current, high-quality resources about sleep in infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women.
Hot Topics in Infant Safe Sleep: An Interactive Workshop with Rachel Moon, M.D. from the ASIP-Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance 2010 International Conference on Perinatal and Infant Death (November 2010).
CJ Foundation for SIDS: Education Materials. Posters, public awareness campaigns, and other materials.
Consumer Product Safety Commission Crib Information Center
First Candle: Model program for nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit or the well baby nursery, bedtime basics sleep education campaign, and important safe sleep tips.
Healthy Child Care America Back to Sleep Campaign. Brochures, training materials, policy and research articles.
Maternal and Child Health Library: Infant Mortality and Pregnancy Loss Knowledge Path: Safe Sleep Environment. Selected resources.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign. Brochures, door hangers, magnet; some materials available in Spanish.
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education. SIDS risk reduction standards and links to resources from other organizations.
- Bed Sharing
- Child Care
- Cribs
- Multimedia
- Pacifiers
- Plagiocephaly (flat head)
- Safe Sleep
- Suffocation
- Tummy time
August, 2009; Updated October 2011
