Unsafe sleeping spots continuing to cause infant deaths

Unsafe sleeping spots continuing to cause infant deaths

In the 1990s, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s safe sleeping campaign reminded us all “back to sleep,” as in put your baby on her back when you put her to bed. 

It worked. More parents put their babies on their backs and the rates of sudden infant death syndrome went down from 130.27 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 33.3 per 100,000 live births in 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Rates of accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed for infants have increased in the same time period. Those rates went from 3.44 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 25.5 per 100,000 per live births in 2019. 

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