Healthy Start Coalition launches “Safe Sleep” campaign and new initiatives for fall

Anthony L. White Contributor Every year, more than 3,000 infants under the age of one die while sleeping. Nearly a third of these sudden and unexpected deaths are caused by accidental suffocation and strangulation while the infant is in bed. These accidental deaths are linked to unsafe sleeping habits, like placing infants on their stomach or side to sleep, sharing a bed with an infant, or bedding that can suffocate or strangle an infant. The others are attributed to sudden infant death sy