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Baby Sleep Safe

The Health Center of Huron County Provides:

Baby Sleep Safe participants will receive:

  • Safe Sleep Education

  • Safe Sleep Kits; which may include a:

  1. Portable Crib

  2. Fitted sheet

  3. Sleep sack and

  4. Pacifier

Who Qualifies?

Huron County and Bellevue City families who benefit from or are eligible for the WIC program, lack a safe sleep environment for their child, and have a child under the age of one or are at least 32 weeks pregnant qualify for the Baby Sleep Safe program.

To Make An Appointment

Please call 419-668-1652 Ext. 241.

This work is funded either in whole or in part by a grant awarded by the Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Maternal, Child and Family Health, Maternal Child Health Program’s Cribs for Kids® Safe Sleep Program and as a sub-award of a grant issued by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal Child Health Block Grant, grand award number B04MC26688, and CFDA number 93.994 and Am. Sub. H.B.64.”

Every year in the United States, approximately 4,000 infant deaths occur due to accidental suffocation, asphyxia, or undetermined causes during sleep. According to the Ohio Department of Health, every week in Ohio, 3 babies die in unsafe sleep environments.​

Safe Sleep:

Baby sleeps safest alone, on their back in a crib.

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