SafetySmart Lilburn

Safe Sleep Program Saves Lives

Want to keep your baby safe while they sleep? SafetySmart Lilburn provides ways to take precautions against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Progress has been made in reducing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the infant population. This is thanks largely to the 18-year campaign originally called Back-To-Sleep, but now entitled Safe-Sleep.  Death by suffocation is by far the number one cause of deaths in infants under one year. Since the Back-to-Sleep campaign began in 1994, infant death rates due to suffocation has been reduced by 50 percent. The Food and Drug Administration joined forces with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to promote the concept and widen the circle of those practicing this simple technique. Recently, deaths have occurred as a result of infant sleep positioners (ISPs), advertised as helping to prevent SIDS, but actually …

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