For Families:
- 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:
- 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.
- Guide for perinatal helpers to use the Modules
- Guide for Safe Sleep Promoters to use the Modules
- Nighttime Parenting Plan Worksheet
Other resources:
- 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
- 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.