Safe Sleep Recommendation: Feed your baby breast milk

Safe Sleep Recommendation: Feed your baby breast milk

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Evidence shows that human milk reduces the risk of SIDS. The longer you give your baby breast milk, the more protection it gives.

Evidence shows that human milk reduces the risk of SIDS. The longer you give your baby breast milk, the more protection it gives.

  • Breastfeed or feed your baby expressed breast milk. The AAP recommends breastfeeding as the sole source of nutrition for your baby for about 6 months.
  • Even after you add solid foods to your baby’s diet, continue breastfeeding until they’re at least 12 months, or longer if you and your baby desire.
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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.