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Safe Sleep Recommendation: Make sure your baby has tummy time while awake every day.

Safe Sleep Recommendation: Make sure your baby has tummy time while awake every day.

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An awake adult should supervise awake tummy time. This helps with your baby’s motor development and prevents flat head syndrome.

An awake adult should supervise awake tummy time. This helps with your baby’s motor development and prevents flat head syndrome. Start with a short amount of tummy time soon after you get home from the hospital. Gradually increase the time until your baby is doing at least 15 to 30 minutes of tummy time every day by the time they’re 7 weeks old.

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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.

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