Supporting families with sleep - La Leche League GB

Many families feel uneasy about sharing aspects of their parenting style with their Healthcare Professional, including their sleep arrangements. Others end up bed-sharing in a situation where it was unplanned but is the only response they can think of to soothe an upset baby and an exhausted mother. The “Safe Sleep Seven” leaflets set out how to plan safer shared sleep.

Bringing it into your conversations with expectant mothers and mothers with new babies can encourage them to make an informed decision about bed-sharing. For those parents who choose this option, it helps them to set up an environment where shared sleep is done in the safest possible way, and encourages good communication between the family and the healthcare team. For those families where this may be an end of their tether parenting choice, knowing the risk can help them to make safe choices.

And even better, the leaflets cost only £3 for a pack of 100! You can order them here or simply download the file and use it as a poster, a handout, a discussion aid or in any other way it will facilitate open discussion with mums and mums to be. Why not share with us how you have used it on Facebook or twitter.

Buy the ground breaking Sweet Sleep book from our Shop.

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LLLGB Resources
I need some sleep! is great to share with sleep deprived mums – it contains lots of ideas that have worked for others.
Safer Sleep and the Breastfed Baby
Letting Babies Cry – the Facts Behind the Studies
The Reasons Why Night Waking is the Biological Norm
Sleepy Baby – Why and What To Do

Professor Helen Ball, whose research in hospitals and the community examines sleep ecology and contributes to national and international policy and practice guidelines on infant care, wrote the preface to Sweet Sleep from LLLI, “the first and most complete book for making sane and safe decisions on how and where your family sleeps, backed by the latest research”.