Safer Sleep Week, from 14-20 March, is 
The Lullaby Trust’s national awareness campaign aiming to raise awareness of the importance of safer sleep and how to reduce the chance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
In the early 1990s the UK, along with many other countries, saw a dramatic reduction in the number of babies dying as SIDS. In the 1980s over 1,000 babies in England and Wales died suddenly and unexpectedly each year. Following the Back to Sleep and other campaigns, this figure dropped by 2/3, and has continued to fall since. Nevertheless, every year over 200 families lose a baby in this way.
SIDS Incidence, England & Wales, 1985-2011
Over the past 15 years I have met and spent time with lots of families whose babies have died suddenly and unexpectedly. Every single one is heart-breaking: to sit with parents whose baby has just died, to feel their anguish, and to hold their big questions, knowing that there are no easy answers, and nothing I can do to take away the pain.
And yet, perhaps the most heart-breaking thing of all is that so many of these deaths could be prevented. We may not know the causes of SIDS, but we do know very clearly how to prevent it.
The messages are really very simple:
So please, share this blog, get the messages out, and maybe you might help to save a baby’s life.
You can get more information, support and resources on the Lullaby Trust website: http://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/LThome