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  • Home
  • Safe Infant Sleep Basics
    • About SIDS and Safe Sleep
    • What is SIDS?
    • Fast Facts About SIDS
    • SIDS Is Not...
    • What Causes SIDS?
    • Common SIDS and SUID Terms And Definitions
    • What Do We Know About Risk?
    • Known Risk Factors
    • Ways To Reduce The Risk Of SIDS And Other Sleep-Related Causes Of Infant Death
    • Why Babies Need Tummy Time
    • FAQs
    • Myths And Facts
    • Key Moments In Campaign History
      • 1969-1993
      • 1994-2003
      • 2004-2013
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    • 2020 SIDS Awareness Month #SafeSleepSnap Digital Toolkit
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      • What Does A Safe Sleep Environment Look Like?
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    • Research On Back Sleeping And SIDS
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  • Printable & Shareable Resources
    • 2020 SIDS Awareness Month #SafeSleepSnap Digital Toolkit
    • Caregivers & Families
      • What Does A Safe Sleep Environment Look Like?
      • Interactive Safe Sleep Environment Tool
      • Breastfeeding & SIDS Videos/Handout
      • Amamantar y sueño seguro (videos/folleto)
      • Safe Sleep for Your Baby Videos
      • Grandparent Videos
      • Abuelos
    • Healthcare & Service Providers
      • Healthy Native Babies Project Toolkits and Guides
      • Downloadable Media
        • Baby’s Anatomy When on the Stomach and on the Back
        • Dads—Help Baby Sleep Safe Infographic
        • Infografia: Padres ayuden a sus bebes a dormir seguros
        • Infografia: Sueño seguro para su bebé
        • Infographic: Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation
        • Parents Placing Baby into a Safe Sleep Environment
        • Room Sharing
        • Room Sharing
        • SIDS by Baby's Age Infographic
        • Safe Infant Sleep Environment
        • Safe Infant Sleep Environment
        • Safe Sleep for Your Baby Infographic (Horizontal)
        • Safe Sleep for Your Baby Infographic (Vertical)
        • Tummy Time
    • Other Materials
    • Safe to Sleep® Shareable Content

How Can Caregivers Create A Safe Sleep Environment?

Mother and father talking to a baby laying on his back in a crib.

Check your knowledge of safe sleep environments using the Safe Sleep Environment Tool.

This tool allows users to learn more about ways to reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related causes of infant death. 

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