Breastfeeding reduces the risk of cot death

This advice, released to launch FSID’s cot death awareness drive in May's Save a Baby Month, is based on research which showed that babies who were at least partly breastfed were one-third less likely to die as a cot death than babies who were never breastfed.

Read our press release here.

Read our Questions and answers fact sheet on breastfeeding here.

This advice is contained in our award-winning BabyZone booklet which is available for all midwives to distribute to pregnant women and new mothers.

Our toolkit for midwives

• free monthly e-newsletter - sign up now!
• printed materials including BabyZone, sleep safe advice card, and a 'reduce the risk of cot death' poster
• Safe sleep video
• regional seminars and workplace talks. Contact your Regional Development Officer to book a talk for your team.

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