Safe Sleep Recommendation: Do not let your child fall asleep on nursing pillows or pillow-like lounging pads.

Safe Sleep Recommendation: Do not let your child fall asleep on nursing pillows or pillow-like lounging pads.

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Babies may roll over onto their sides or stomachs and turn their heads into the soft fabric and suffocate. Or, when propped up on an incline against the pillow or lounger, their heads can fall forward, blocking their airway. Babies do not need the soft padding of pillow.

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Safe Sleep NC is a program of the UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health. Our goal is to strengthen the adoption of infant safe sleep practices that reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and that prevent infant sleep-related deaths such as accidental infant asphyxiation and suffocation across the state.