Thursday 3 August, 2017
Reducing smoking and bed-sharing will be the targets of a new national programme launched this week to reduce Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI).
The programme, being lead by Māori public health organisation Hāpai Te Hauora, will from September start providing safe sleeping devices such as woven wahukura or plastic peps-pods to families identified as needing them in their baby’s first year of life. Accidental suffocation through parents sharing a bed with their baby is one of the main preventable risks of SUDI.