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:
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:
- Nighttime Parenting Plan Worksheet
Other resources:
- Bedsharing and Breastfeeding (ABM, 2023)
- Physiological Infant Care—Managing NighttimeBreastfeeding in Young Infants (ABM, 2023)
- BASIS: Baby Sleep Info Source (UK webpage)
- Bedsharing & Breastfeeding (ABM, 2020)
- 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)
- Kansas Infant Death & SIDS (KIDS) Network – safe sleep instructors, photo library
- 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. 2021 research study found a close relationship between breastfeeding and bed-sharing and a lower frequency of SIDS risk factors associated with both practices.
- Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion: a qualitative study (BMC, 2023)