Safe Sleep

Workgroup Notes from Safe Sleep Mini Conference

 

Results of Local Focus Groups: Metrix Marketing, Inc., was engaged by Bivona Child Advocacy Center in the spring of 2009 to conduct focus groups with low income women to gather information that would provide a basis for efforts to reduce the incidence of positional asphyxia during sleep among infants in Monroe County. The full report is available HERE.

 

For Parents and Caregivers:

Caring for Young Infants: Safe Sleep Practices

What is SIDS?

What is SIDS? - Spanish Language

Welcome to Parenthood Book

Second Hand Smoke Danger

Keeping NICU Babies Safe at Home

Back to Sleep flyer

Safe Sleep for Baby flyer - Spanish Language

Safe Sleep Area

Safe Sleep Area - Spanish Language

safe Sleep for my Grandbaby

safe Sleep fro my Grandbaby - Spanish Language

 

For Health Care Professionals

Continuing Education For Nurses: SIDS Risk Reduction

Immunizations And SIDS

National SIDS/Infant Death Resource Center: Nurses role in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) risk reduction: A Selected Annotated Bibliography

Standards for Public Health Nurses: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Standards for Social Work: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Baby's Safe Sleep Poster

Just Baby Poster

Just Baby Poster - Spanish Language

Baby Safe Sleep Zone Poster

Back to Sleep flyer - multigenerational

Educating Parents and Caregivers About Infant Safe Sleep: A Guide for Home Visitors

Nothing but Baby Flyer

Safe Sleep Environment Guidelines

SIDS Death Parent Handbook - Mandarin Chinese

SIDS Death Parent Handbook - Korean Language

SIDS Death Parent Handbook - Tagalog Language

SIDS Death Parent Handbook - Vietnamese Language

Shaken Baby Syndrome Fact Sheet

Safe Sleep Brochure

Safe Sleep Education Slides

Safe Sleep Education Slides - Partial Spanish Language

Sample Policy Manual for NICU Staff

Safe Sleep Discussion question for Pre and Post natal Visits

SIDS info for Childcare Providers

A resource kit for reducing the risk of SIDS in African American Communities

Childcare Facility Emergency Drill for Unresponsive Infants

SIDS Info for EMT's

What Childcare providers should know about SIDS

What Childcare providers should know about SIDS - Spanish Language

 

SIDS Bereavement Materials

Bereavement Support for the Family

Brothers and Sisters Hurt Too

Brothers and Sisters Hurt Too - Spanish Language

The Death of a Child - The Grief of the Parents: A Lifetime Journey

For Men Only

For Men Only - Spanish Language

From A childcare providers point of view: How SIDS affected me

From A childcare providers point of view: How SIDS affected me - Spanish Language

When Your Baby Dies...A Gentle Guide For Teenage Parents

SIDS: for Grandparents a Double Grief

SIDS: for Grandparents a Double Grief - Spanish Language

Grieving Alone: A Single Parent's Experience

Grieving Alone: A Single Parent's Experience - Spanish Language

Helping Children Grieve

Helping Children Grieve - Spanish Language

Helping Couple' Cope

Helping Couple's Cope - Spanish Language

Holiday Blues

Holiday Blues - Spanish Language

Loosing a Grandchild to SIDS

Loosing a Grandchild to SIDS - Spanish Language

SIDS and Foster Parents

SIDS and Foster Parents - Spanish Language

SIDS Grief Process

Stages of Grief in Children

Talking to Children About Death

Talking to Children About Death - Spanish Language

Ways to Remember a brother or sister

Checklist for ED staff

Checklist for First Responders

 

 

Research Papers:

Infant Sleeping Position and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in California, 1997–2000

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Changing Epidemiologic Patterns in California 1989-2004

Infant Sleep Location: Associated Maternal and Infant Characteristics with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Prevention Recommendations

Bassinet Use and Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy

First-Time Mothers’ Selection of Infant Supine Sleep Positioning

Recurrence rates for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): the importance of risk stratification


Head covering a major modifiable risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome: a systematic review

Recent National Trends in Sudden, Unexpected Infant Deaths: More Evidence Supporting a Change in Classification or Reporting

Infant-Parent Bed Sharing in an Inner-City Population

Supine Sleeping Position Does Not Cause Clinical Aspiration in Neonates in Hospital Newborn Nurseries

The Controversy About What Constitutes Safe and Nurturant Infant Sleep Environments

Association Between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Prone Sleep Position, Bed Sharing, and Sleeping Outside an Infant Crib in Alaska

Do Pacifiers Reduce the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? A Meta-analysis

Sleep Environment, Positional, Lifestyle, and Demographic Characteristics Associated With Bed Sharing in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Cases: A Population-Based Study

Precursors of Cardiorespiratory Events in Infants Detected by Home Memory Monitor

Cardiopulmonary Outcomes of Extreme Prematurity

SIDS Focus Group Report - NYC

Bronx Infant Mortality Working Group Report

A Status Report on Maternal and Infant Health in the Bronx

The Changing Concept of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Diagnostic Coding Shifts, Controversies Regarding the Sleeping Environment, and New Variables to Consider in Reducing Risk

Apnea, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and Home Monitoring

Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome From Child Abuse Fatalities

Hospital Discharge of the High-Risk Neonate

 

Power Point Presentations

An Overview of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID): Causes and Risk Factors

CDC’s Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Case Registry

 

Resources:

Western New York State Center for Sudden Infant Death

Life Transitions Center

150 Bennett Road

Cheektowaga, New York 14227

716-837-5189

NYS Office- 800-336-7437

jwalkden@palliativecare.org

 

Jobena Robinson, Coordinator

Nurse Family Partnership

Monroe County Health Department

691 St. Paul St, 4th Floor

Rochester, New York 14605

585-753-5528

 

Cribs for Kids

SIDS of Pennsylvania

810 River Avenue, Suite 250

Pittsburgh, PA 15212

1-888-721 CRIB

 

CJ Foundation for SIDS

30 Prospect Street

Hackensack University Medical Center

Hackensack, New Jersey 07601

Website: www.cjsids.org

 

First Candle

1314 Bedford Avenue

Suite 210

Baltimore, MD 21208

1-800-221-7437

Website: www.firstcandle.org