Safe Sleep for Babies | Prevent SIDS & Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths | Alison Jacobson from First Candle | MomCave LIVE

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October is Infant Loss Awareness Month. We're talking live with Alison Jacobson, CEO of @FirstCandle, a non-profit whose mission is to end SIDS. She'll share the story of her son and her wisdom on this serious topic.
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Here's a bit of a transcript. You can read the full interview at MomCaveTV.com:
Jen: Hi, this is Jen and this is Mom Cave Live, where we may have lost our minds, but we haven’t lost our sense of humor. I am Jen and I’m here with our special guest this week, Alison Jacobson from First Candle.org who is discussing Infant Loss as well as Safe Sleep Awareness Month.
It’s going to be a little more serious of an episode, though. Of course, you know, we can’t help but make jokes all the time about everything.
Infant Loss Awareness Month
But it’s because this is Infant Loss Awareness Month. So we’re going to talk to Alison a bit about that. Hi, Alison.
Alison Jacobson: Hi. Thanks so much for having me.
Jen: Thank you for being here. It’s such a really, really important topic that a lot of us don’t know as much about as we should or think we do. So I’m grateful for you being here.
Alison Jacobson: Thank you.
Jen: Can you tell us first, what is First Candle.org? How did it come about and where can they find it?
Alison Jacobson: So First Candle is a 40-year-old organization that’s been around – a nonprofit organization. We are national. We used to be known as the SIDS Alliance. And we have been involved in SIDS and Safe Sleep forever. In fact, we were instrumental in getting all the messages out about “Back to Sleep.”
And because of that, the rates of SIDS declined by 50 percent. But then all of a sudden they stopped. And about 10 years ago, they leveled out. So we started looking at the government level and pediatricians about what was happening.
And it was more than just “Back to Sleep.” The reality was that a lot of these incidents were sleep-related infant deaths with accidental suffocation. Now, the reality is that’s bad news, but it’s good news, because with SIDS, you didn’t know how to prevent it or how to to do anything.
Jen: It was very mysterious.
Safe Sleep
Alison Jacobson: Right! Exactly. It was this great mystery and scary as heck! With accidental suffocation, there are absolutely things we can do to help prevent it. What I wanted to point out is that it is Infant Loss Awareness Month, but it’s Safe Sleep Awareness Month as well.
And, you know, I’m not trying to make it more positive, but there are things we absolutely can do. Moms, grandmas, everybody needs to know there are simple things we can do to keep our babies safe.
Alison Jacobson: Right.
Jen: So why is it that babies should be on their backs?
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