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Keeping Babies Safe www.keepingbabiessafe.org is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that provides education, assistance and leadership in keeping babies safe from preventable injuries associated with unsafe cribs and unsafe sleep environments. Keeping Babies Safe offers crib and sleep safety information, safety tips, and product recall information so parents can stay informed and remain vigilant about keeping their children safe.   Keeping Babies Safe, in connection with the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, created “Safe Sleep (Environments) for Babies” educational videos that are being implemented in hospitals and health clinics nationwide to reach as many new and expecting parents as possible.

• Our videos “Safe Sleep for Babies” are the leading go-to resource for parents on how to create and maintain a safe sleep environment for baby.
• United States authorities, Dr. Marion Burton, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Inez Tenenbaum, Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Joyce Davis, President of Keeping Babies Safe have come together to bring this valuable, unprecedented safety information to inform parents on how to create and maintain a safe nursery and sleep environment for all babies.
• “Safe Sleep for Babies” can be seen in full length 12.5 minute versions, and two 4-minute English and Spanish (minority outreach) versions on the Keeping Babies Safe website www.keepingbabiessafe.org
• Keeping Babies Safe, additionally, is disseminating “Safe Sleep for Babies” videos and brochure information within hospital TV networks nationwide. NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and its affiliates are the first hospitals to implement “Safe Sleep for Babies.”
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) cites “more than 11 million cribs, bassinets and play yards have been recalled in the past two years for safety reasons.”
• More infant fatalities occur in non-recalled cribs than in recalled cribs.
• According to the CPSC’s  “Nursery Product-Related Injuries and Deaths Among Children under Age Five”
• In 2009, there were an estimated 77,300 emergency department-treated injuries associated with nursery products.
• Cribs/mattresses, play yards/playpens account for 25% and are the leading cause of injury among all nursery products.
• During the three-year period 2005–2007, CPSC reported 265 deaths associated with nursery products. 67% overall deaths are as follows:
  40% (107 total or 36 annually) with cribs/mattresses.
  16% (43 total or 14 annually) with bassinets/cradles.
  11%  (29 total or 10 annually) with playpens/play yards.

Joyce Davis, President of Keeping Babies Safe, lost her son due to adding a supplemental mattress that was advertised as suitable for their popular brand of portable crib.  Keeping Babies Safe was founded to educate parents about crib, and sleep safety, and to advocate for more stringent consumer safety regulation laws to be enacted in evaluating products. “These dangers are completely preventable,” says Joyce.  “We supply reliable information to parents so they can be better informed to protect their babies.  Cribs are the most important product in your home for your baby. It’s the only place where your child is left unattended.”

Keeping Babies Safe works with corporate, foundation and individual donors to fund a multi-tiered campaign that includes: distributing the “Safe Sleep (Environments) for Babies” educational videos and written materials in (English and Spanish) to parents; educating hospital personnel on safe crib and sleep practices, so they can pass this information directly to their patients; and, offering safe cribs to parents from economically-challenged environments throughout our partnered hospitals and clinics nationwide.  Since inception, Keeping Babies Safe has donated more than 2000 cribs and educational materials to: Atlantic Health Systems; Columbia University’s NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and their affiliates; Hackensack University Medical Center; Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland; Somerset Hills YMCA; Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York (NS-LIJ Health Systems); West Virginia Right from the Start Program Statewide; New Jersey Department of Child and Family Services and South Phoenix Healthy Start and Association for Supportive Child Care in Arizona.  KBS looks forward to substantially expanding these efforts in 2011.  Please consider donating to Keeping Babies Safe.  With every $100 donation, Keeping Babies Safe is able to purchase a non full size crib and $150 a daycare crib. Both cribs comply with the new federal crib standard.