For Families:

• Bedsharing and Breastfeeding (English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian)
• Physiologic Infant Care: Supporting Breastfeeding, Sleep, and Well-being (English, Spanish, Ukrainian)
• Breastfeeding & Safe Sleep (NICHD)
• Breastfeed Your Baby to Reduce the Risk of SIDS – short video
• Safe Sleep for Your Baby – 10 min. video
• Nighttime Parenting Plan Worksheet
• Sleep & Breastfeeding (Canada)
• Special Considerations for the Child Care Setting:
  • Safe Infant Sleep and Breastfeeding Support: What to Consider When Looking for Child Care 
  • Safe Sleep Infographic
  • Safe Sleep in Child-Care Settings: Recommendations for Reducing the Risk of Sudden Infant Death (FAQ)
    

For Those Who Support Families:

Building on Campaigns with Conversations: An Individualized Approach to Helping Families Embrace Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding:

• Building on Campaigns with Conversations: An Individualized Approach to Helping Families Embrace Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding: Modules – learning modules support greater awareness of the importance of integrated breastfeeding and safe sleep behaviors, reinforce evidence-based policies and practices, and promote an empowering, problem-solving approach for families to adopt.
• Supplements by role/provider for use with the Modules above:
  • Guide for Perinatal Helpers
  • Guide for Safe Sleep Promoters 
  • Guide for Home Visitors
  • Guide for Grassroots Organizations
• Nighttime Parenting Plan Worksheet

Other resources:

• Safe Sleep: Educating Lactating Families (MiBFN, 1-hr webinar)
• Bedsharing and Breastfeeding (ABM, 2023)
• Physiological Infant Care—Managing Nighttime Breastfeeding in Young Infants (ABM, 2023)
• Kansas Infant Death & SIDS (KIDS) Network – safe sleep instructors, photo library
• Promoting Breastfeeding and Safe Sleep Guiding Conversations with Families (Oregon)
• Oregon Safe Sleep Coalition Communications Guide
• BASIS: Baby Sleep Info Source (UK webpage)
• Lullaby Trust (UK website)
• Breastfeed Your Baby to Reduce the Risk of SIDS – video
• Downloadable Media (Safe to Sleep)
• The Intersection of Breastfeeding & Safe Infant Sleep – webinar, 8/2020
• Image Gallery (NICHQ)
• Myths V. Facts: Breastfeeding & Safe Sleep for Infants (NICHQ)
• Safe Infant Sleep: Position Paper, International Childbirth Education Association
• Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2022 Recommendations for Reducing Infant Deaths in the Sleep Environment (AAP, 2022) (Technical Report)
• Population-Based Survey Showing That Breastfed Babies Have a Lower Frequency of Risk Factors for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Than Nonbreastfed Babies.
• Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion: a qualitative study (BMC, 2023)