First Candle leadership offers news and insight, from both a consumer and public health perspective, related to:

Infant Safe Sleep

• Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID)
• Sudden Infant Death (SIDS)
• Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed (ASSB)
• Safer Sleep Tips
• The realities of co-sleeping

Family and healthcare provider education on infant safe sleep and breastfeeding

• Safe sleep guidelines and how to explain them to families
• About breastfeeding: making the choice
• Proper use of infant products
• The importance of community-based outreach to families
• The value of Safe Sleep Awareness Month (October)

Health inequities in the rates of SUID and stillbirth and contributing issues

• Understanding families’ lived experiences, their options, and finding solutions

Bereavement and infant loss

• 10 things you can say to a friend who has suffered SUID infant loss
• Coping with infant loss during the holidays
• Dads and infant-loss grief