Throughout this review on the health issue of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) explore and examine the policies and guidelines applied to the health problem. According to Mayo Clinic (2018) that Sudden infant death Syndrome does not yet have a treatment; however, they claim there are safe sleeping practices to reduce risk. According to New South Wales Government Health [NSW government health] (2018), the policy Babies – Safe Sleeping Practices (NSW government health 2018) provides staff in NSW Public Health Organisations (PHOs) guidelines to assist staff in reducing the risk of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) and SIDS. Within the policy’s guidelines, provides vital messages outlines for safe sleeping practices. The first key message is for babies to sleep on their backs and prevent side and tummy sleeping (NSW government health 2018). Babies – Safe Sleeping Practices (NSW government health 2018) guidelines also suggest that infants should sleep on their backs and prevention of prone and s
ide sleeping for the reduction in risk to the child. According to Sidebotham et al. (2018), vital practices for safe sleeping to keep head and face uncovered, maintaining a smoke-free environment before and after the birth of the child. Within Babies – Safe Sleeping Practices (NSW government health 2018) guidelines hold the same suggestion for safe sleeping practices such as keeping face uncovered and keeping the smoke free environment (NSW government health 2018). There is a lot of evidenced backing breastfeeding babies for reducing SUDI, encouragement of mothers breastfeeding is implemented within the Babies – Safe Sleeping Practices (2018) guidelines. Jeffery (2018) suggests that to reduce the risk of SUDI and SIDS, mothers should be breastfeeding their babies. The practices provided by the policy are back with strong evidence-based literature. Therefore, it is relevant to the health issue and offers affective methods backed by evidence-based prevention strategies for the prevention of SIDS and SUDI.