Clint Hurdle Retired Pittsburgh Pirates Manager. Research links crib bumpers and soft, thick bedding to serious injuries and deaths from suffocation, entrapment, strangulation and SIDS. Robert R Long Chairman Emeritus Coalition for Christian Outreach. Keep things out of baby’s sleep area-no objects, toys, or loose items.Board of Directors Young Professionals Board Dannys Story Media Inquiries. This Back to Sleep Campaign resulted in a drop in sudden infant death rates of 50 percent in the U.S., but sleep-related deaths remained the number one cause of infant deaths after the first month of age. As we know, cribs are just one of many sleep products that children come into. Sitting devices, such as swings or car seats, and inclined or tilted sleep surfaces, with one end higher than the other, are also not safe sleep places for babies. Saving Little Lives is a Big Deal In 1994 doctors began instructing new mothers to put their babies on their backs to sleep. Soft surfaces, like couches, memory foam or air mattresses, armchairs, and thick blankets or quilts are not safe places for babies to sleep. In Franklin County (2012-2014), 89 of babies who died while sleeping we either not alone, not on their backs, or not in a crib. Use a sleep surface for baby that is firm and flat, level (not at an angle or inclined), and covered only with a fitted sheet in a safety-approved crib, bassinet, or portable crib.Call 86 or email to see if you qualify for assistance. *Can’t afford a crib for your infant? The Knox County Health Department Cribs for Kids program may be able to help.

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