New Safe Sleeping Animation for Parents and Practitioners
Click here for the Safer Sleep website.
Health professionals and local councils from Newcastle and Gateshead have created a short, animated video to help parents and carers keep their babies safer when they sleep.
It explains why co-sleeping or co-napping for every sleep, including times when your routine changes due to unexpected or unplanned events, is never safe if:
- you or your partner have drank alcohol
- or taken drugs, including prescription or over-the-counter
medicines, that can make you feel sleepy or drowsy - you share a bed with your baby if you or your partner smoke, or if
the baby was exposed to smoking during pregnancy - your baby was born prematurely (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) or
- if they weighed less than 2.5kg or 5.5Ib when they were born.
