Carolinas Hospital System is giving a hand to new mothers and teaching them about sleep related deaths.
“Teaching them the ABC of safe sleep, being alone, on their back, and inside their crib in their wearable blankets with no toys,” says the director of women’s services, Catherine Godwin.
Carolinas partnered with ‘Crib For Kids’ to prevent infant deaths. Last year, the U.S. had more than 3,000 newborn deaths due to accidental suffocation. The hospital is making sure that number goes down by teaching parents the proper way to put your baby to sleep.
“All moms are sent home with a wearable blanket and we make sure they have a crib or a bassinet that the babies sleep in. We also encourage they should sleep in the cribs by themselves” says a registered nurse, Jenny Johnson.
Nurses warn parents that finding sources or new trends online may not be safe for your newborn.
“If Google says it, it must be true, but what we find is that some of the information on the unauthorized Google sites are not correct,” says Godwin.
Carolinas Hospital System wants to make sure they continue to educate parents and save lives.
“It’s amazing how things change. Research now shows that when we thought we were doing the right thing, we weren’t always doing the right thing,” says Johnson.
This is the first hospital in South Carolina to receive a gold certification.
