"Same Room, Safe Place": The Need for Professional Safe Sleep Unity Grows at the Expense of Families. (April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Keene Woods, Nikki
• Is Part Of: Journal of primary care & community health. Volume 8:Number 2(2017:Apr.)
• Page Start: 94
• Page End: 96
• Publication Date: 2017-04
• Subjects: community health -- health promotion -- prevention -- patient-centeredness -- infant safe sleep; Primary health care -- Periodicals; Primary health care -- United States -- Periodicals; Community health services -- Periodicals; Community health services -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.12
• DOI: 10.1177/2150131916670067
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2150-1319

Abstract

There are many different professional stances on safe sleep and then there is the reality of caring for a newborn. There is a debate among professionals regarding safe sleep recommendations. The continum of recommendations vary from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Safe Sleep Guidelines to the bed-sharing recommendations from the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. The lack of consistent and uniform safe sleep recommendations from health professionals has been confusing for families but has more recently raised a real professional ethical dilemma. Despite years of focused safe sleep community education and interventions, sleep-related infant deaths are on the rise in many communities. This commentary calls for a united safe sleep message from all health professionals to improve health for mothers and infants most at-risk, "Same Room, Safe Place."