Infant Safe Sleep

Talking to parents about the risks of sleep suffocation and the use of safe sleep practices has been shown to reduce sleep-related deaths.  Encourage parents to:

• Share a room, not a bed
• Lay baby down to sleep in a crib or bassinet for every sleep
• Don't sleep with your baby
• Don't let your baby sleep in a crowded crib
• Place babies on their back every time, at night and for naps
• Give babies space to breathe - no pillows, bumpers, blankets or toys

The materials in this toolkit can be used to help ensure that no other parent in Arizona 

wakes up to a tragedy.  

AzAAP provides free posters to providers, practices, and hospitals, to encourage parents to practice safe sleep and prevent sleep-related tragedies.  Request printed posters from leadership@azaap.org or download the digital version below.

Parent pledge forms encourage parents to make a commitment to using infant safe sleep practices.  These pledge forms can be distributed at every well child visit to aid in the discussion about safe sleep.

A quick and easy take-home resource for parents to reinforce safe sleep practices.  This checklist encourage parents to have their baby sleep alone, on their back, in a crib in their own separate sleep space.