Inside Nebraska Methodist Women’s Hospital, parents are taught safe sleep practices before they leave the hospital.
“You want baby to sleep alone,” said Erica Maier, the hospital’s clinical resource manager for obstetrician services. “That’s really the key. You want baby to sleep alone.” Safe sleep is all about education, Maier said. “We want them nice, snuggled, and one warm blanket – that’s what we’re truly looking for,” she said.
But unsafe sleep can be deadly. KETV Investigates uncovered new data from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
It shows the mortality rate for sudden infant deaths by accidental suffocation has more than quadrupled over the last seven years.
