The Mississippi State Department of Health is looking to curb sleep-related deaths in babies

According to officials, sleep-related deaths are the third-leading cause of infant death in Mississippi, and about one in five occur while the baby is being cared for by someone other than a parent.

During National Safe Sleep and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month, the health department is cautioning parents about the practices that contribute to the avoidable deaths and recommending steps to take to ensure babies live to see another day.

Between 2022 and 2024, 184 Mississippi infants died from SIDS, crib death, and other sleep-related causes such as accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed. While putting infants to sleep on their stomachs was once a common practice, it is now k

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