title: "Same Room, Safe Place".
abstract: There are many different professional stances on safe sleep and then there is the reality of caring for a newborn. There is a debate among professionals regarding safe sleep recommendations. The continum of recommendations vary from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Safe Sleep Guidelines to the bed-sharing recommendations from the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. The lack of consistent and uniform safe sleep recommendations from health professionals has been confusing for families but has more recently raised a real professional ethical dilemma. Despite years of focused safe sleep community education and interventions, sleep-related infant deaths are on the rise in many communities. This commentary calls for a united safe sleep message from all health professionals to improve health for mothers and infants most at-risk, "Same Room, Safe Place."
authors.affiliation: 1 Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Nikki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Keene Woods
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D000068104:Infant Health; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009035:Mothers; D012449:Safety; D012890:Sleep
keywords: community health; health promotion; infant safe sleep; patient-centeredness; prevention