Top Tips for Safer Sleep from The Lullaby Trust

This week is Safer Sleep Week

I wanted to share with you some top tips from The Lullaby Trust

Tips that ensure your baby is sleeping as safely as possible

Tips that can reduce a baby’s risk of SIDS

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Do Dos

Always place your baby on their back to sleep

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Keep your baby smoke free during pregnancy and after birth

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Place your baby to sleep in a separate cot or Moses basket in the same room as you for the first 6 months

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Breastfeed your baby

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Use a firm, flat, waterproof mattress in good condition

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Don’t Dos

Never sleep on a sofa or in an armchair with your baby

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Don’t sleep in the same bed as your baby if you smoke, drink or take drugs or are extremely tired, if your baby was born prematurely or was of low birth-weight

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Avoid letting your baby get too hot

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Don’t cover your baby’s face or head while sleeping or use loose bedding

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To avoid accidents remove all pillows, soft bedding, cot bumpers and soft toys from the cot

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These top tips are from The Lullaby Trust

Please visit their website for more information

One thought on “Top Tips for Safer Sleep from The Lullaby Trust

  1. Nice to have a quick refresh of these tips, think we are going to get a next to me crib this time as neither of our boys slept well in the first few months and I hated falling asleep in bed with them as was always so paranoid!

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