Mayo Clinic Minute: Essential tips to ensure safe sleep for infants

The risk for sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, is highest in the first year of life. SIDS often happens during sleep, which is why knowing and practicing safe sleep is so important.

In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Angela Mattke, a Mayo Clinic pediatrician, discusses the most current safe sleep recommendations.

Sleep can be a big challenge for parents with infants.

Dr. Angela Mattke, a Mayo Clinic pediatrician, says parents should be aware of products that are not safe for sleep.

Other products, like loungers and weighted blankets, are also not safe for sleep. Dr. Mattke says when it comes to baby’s sleeping space, keep it simple.

Sharing a bedroom with baby, especially for the first six months of life, can decrease the risk of sleep-related death by up to 50%. But the key is sharing a bedroom NOT a bed.
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