WARRICK CO., Ind. (WFIE) - Local health experts say infant mortality rates have increased in Warrick County this year due to unsafe sleep practices.

Warrick County Coroner Alissa Enright says the county has had six infant deaths since 2016 due to unsafe sleep practices, and three of those were this year.

Enright says the rise in infant mortality rates holds true for the state as well.

She says it boils down to people not following the A-B-C’s of safe sleep with infants.

“So what we like to call safe sleep is that there’s the A-B-C’s - so ‘A’ would be alone. ‘B’ would be on your back and ‘C’ would be in your crib with no clutter,” she says. “So no blankets, no pillows, so no toys nothing like that. So that’s what safe sleep looks like so anything that is not that is what we consider uns

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