Safe sleep

“Director of Public Health for Liverpool City Council, Professor Matt Ashton, shared:Our health visitors play a vital role in supporting families during the earliest and often most challenging months of a baby’s life. They are trusted faces in our communities, offering practical advice, reassurance and support when parents need it most.

The safer sleep information available through Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Health Visitor portal helps families understand how simple everyday actions – like placing babies on their back to sleep, keeping the cot clear and sleeping in the same room for the first six months – can make a real difference.

I would really encourage parents and carers to use the portal and talk to their health visitor, who can offer personalised advice to help every baby sleep as safely as possible.”

The safest place for a baby to sleep is in their own clear, flat, firm separate sleep space (a cot or Moses basket) in the same room as you.

• Lie your baby on their back
• Keep their cot clear
• Use a firm, flat, waterproof mattress
• Keep baby smoke free
• Avoid your baby getting too hot
• Sleep your baby in the same room as you for at least the first six months.

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• Safer sleep quick reference card
• Baby sleep patterns 
• Premature babies 
• Twins and multiples 
• Co-sleeping 
• What is sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
• Smoking factsheet
• Smoking 
• Alcohol 
• Baby product information
• Children - The Sleep Charity
• Children with SEND 
• Top tips for parents