Face-To-Face Sleep Education Plus 'Baby Boxes' Reduces Bed Sharing
The two-pronged approach to promoting safe sleep led to a 25 percent drop in the risky practice of bed sharing with babies in the first eight days of life, a study found. But more research is needed.
Giving new moms face-to-face education about safe sleep practices — and providing them with a cardboard "baby box" where their newborns can sleep right when they get home — reduces the incidence of bed sharing, a significant risk factor for SIDS and other unexpected sleep-related deaths, a study from Temple University in Philadelphia has found.
The study is the first to show that a face-to-face education program, coupled with the distribution of baby boxes — which come with
