Why is there a need to talk about safe sleep for babies? In 2012 there were 1,047 deaths of infants in Ohio. Per every 1,000 live births there were 6.37 deaths of white babies and 13.93 deaths of black babies. This shows a huge disparity where black babies die twice as often during their first […]
Safe Sleeping for Baby
WRITTEN BY: Pat Holmes, CFCS, M.S.
REVIEWED BY: Shawna Hite, Healthy People Program Specialist
SOURCES:
- Monroe Carrel, Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Safe Sleep, 2015
- National Institutes of Health, Safe to Sleep, 2015
- Ohio Department of Health, Child Fatality 12th Annual Report, 2012
- Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Collaborative to Prevent Infant Mortality, 2015