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No Smoking Day, 13th March 2019: Supporting smoke free families by Wendy Nicholson MBE

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We know smoking during pregnancy is harmful to both the mother and their unborn child. Having a smoke free pregnancy and living in a smoke free home positively impacts on the child’s health outcomes.   The government’s Tobacco Control Plan …

Safer Sleep Week 2019 Supporting safer Sleeping – starting the conversation by Wendy Nicholson MBE & Jane Scattergood

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: All Our Health, Best Start in Life, connecting to the frontline, Getting it Right for Children and Young People, LullabyTrust, SaferSleepWeek, SiDS

  It’s the Lullaby Trust’s annual national awareness-raising campaign which is entitled Safer Sleep Week. Sleeping is second nature to babies, they spend a large proportion of their day sleeping and we want to ensure they are safe – parents …

Safe sleeping – supporting parents - Wendy Nicholson

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This week it is the Lullaby Trust’s ‘Safer sleeping’  week –  the week aims to raise awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and  evidenced advice on how parents  can reduce the risk of it occurring. SIDS is multi-factorial. However, …

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