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Helping you protect babies and support grieving families. We work closely with health and social care professionals to help them keep babies safe and provide the best possible emotional and practical support to grieving families.

Promoting safer baby care
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How we can support professionals

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Training

Discover our expert safer sleep training and bereavement training. Empowering you to help and empower families, and save babies' lives.

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Care of Next Infant (CONI)

We coordinate a national health-visitor led service for bereaved parents, giving hundreds of families peace of mind and support.

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Promoting safer baby care

We're here to empower families with baby safety advice. But keeping babies safe and empowering families starts with you.

Promoting safer baby care
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Supporting a bereaved family

Being involved in a sudden and unexpected infant death can be stressful for any professional. If you work with bereaved parents and families, we're here to help.

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What is SIDS?

When a baby under 12 months dies suddenly and unexpectedly, and no cause is found, it is usually referred to as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). We don’t know what causes SIDS, but we do know that following safer sleep advice for all sleeps, day and night, significantly reduces the risk.

For more information on SIDS and/or safer sleep, call our free helpline on 0808 802 6869 or email [email protected].

What is SIDS? Statistics on SIDS

Safer Sleep information and resources

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Promoting safe baby care

The Lullaby Trust aims to ensure parents and health professionals are aware of SIDS and safer sleep

Promoting safer baby care
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Safer sleep animations

Short animations on safer sleep to share with families

Video resources
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Professionals e-newsletter

For all professionals working with babies and families - get all the latest news, data and research here. You can help keep babies safe, and keep grieving families supported.

Professionals e-newsletter
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Safer Sleep Week

Safer Sleep Week is The Lullaby Trust’s national awareness campaign targeting anyone looking after a young baby. It takes place every March and aims to raise awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the simple advice that reduces the risk of it occurring.

We know that greater awareness of safer sleep leads to a decrease in the numbers of babies dying.

Sadly around four babies a week still die from SIDS and if all parents were aware of safer sleep advice, many lives could be saved. Around 700,000 babies are born every year in the UK and we need to continue to reach out to all new parents with our life-saving messages.

Safer Sleep Week

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