Monitoring the use of safe sleep practices.Promoting safe sleep recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.Follow the latest recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics for safe sleep.Model safe sleep practices in hospitals.Ask caregivers about how they place the baby to sleep, challenges to following recommendations, and help them find solutions.Keep soft bedding such as blankets, pillows, bumper pads, and soft toys out of their baby’s sleep area, and room share but not bed share with babies. Advise caregivers to place babies on their back for every sleep.
Healthcare providers can counsel caregivers on safe sleep practices during pregnancy and baby care visits. Not all caregivers follow these recommendations. These practices can help lower the risk of sleep-related infant deaths, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), accidental suffocation, and deaths from unknown causes. Recommendations also include room sharing but not bed sharing. Other recommended safe sleep practices today include eliminating hazards, such as keeping blankets, pillows, bumper pads, and soft toys out of the sleep area. However, since the late 1990s, declines have slowed. There have been dramatic improvements in reducing baby deaths during sleep since the 1990s, when recommendations were introduced to place babies on their back for sleep.
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