Lawmakers hope improved sleeping conditions will curb infant deaths

HARTFORD, Conn. – Hospitals would be required to give new parents instruction on safe newborn sleeping conditions under a bill proposed by lawmakers seeking to reduce preventable infant deaths.

During a Friday press conference, State Child Advocate Sarah Eagan, co-chair of the state Child Fatality Review Panel, said complications from unsafe sleep conditions are the leading cause of accidental death among infants in the state.

“Not a month goes by when we don’t review a tiny baby who died in a bed — with a blanket, with a pillow, wedged unexpectedly, accidentally strangled, or asphyxiated — and these tragedies are so terrible,” she said.

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