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As the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, Whānau Āwhina Plunket and the National SUDI Prevention Coordination Service are reminding whānau to make every sleep a safe sleep for precious pēpi this winter.

Māori health providers are hoping a new pilot programme will be the key to reducing infant deaths.

Hāpai Te Hauora, Aotearoa's largest Māori public health organisation, working with community health providers, is leading a series of wānanga that connects with hapū māmā and supports them on being smoke-free.

In 1997 I heard a talk by Lois Arnold, who started milk banking in North America, and thought, “That sounds easy, and useful.” Another acquaintance told me about the milk bank in Ireland that occupied a room the size of a large bathroom, which put the resources into perspective.  However I was living in Zimbabwe at the time and things were unsettled, so I didn’t pursue it.

Elements of protection in SUDI Prevention and ensuring mokopuna and pēpi are the best version of themselves by being the best version of ourselves.

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Te Ra Mokopuna: National Safe Sleep Day Aotearoa is being held on Friday 3rd December 2021 across the motu proudly coordinated by the National SUDI Prevention Coordination Service at Hapai Te Hauora.

A 3-month-old baby with her face buried in a pillow. A 5-week-old lying on his tummy with cannabis in his system. A 4-month-old trapped down the side of a couch with his sibling partially on top of him. A 9-month-old with its neck caught in the band of a sleep tent.