Fast Facts:
- Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) is the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States and third leading cause of death for Coloradans under age 18.
- 88.1% Colorado Mothers reported they most often lay their infants down to sleep on their backs.
- 91.3% Non-Hispanic white mothers and 73.5% Black mothers reported that they most often lay their infants down to sleep on their backs.
- Infants in frontier counties in Colorado are 1.6x as likely to die by SUID when compared with those living in an urban counties.
- Persons using tobacco, taking sedatives, medications or drugs, or intoxicated from alcohol or other substances, or otherwise excessively unable to arouse easily from sleep should not cosleep on the same surface with the infant.