Honouring Our Babies Safer Sleep Toolkit

Perinatal Services BC have put together the Honouring Our Babies Safer Sleep Toolkit: Facilitator Guide and Cards 3^rd Edition 2023, including important information and recommendations on how to facilitate conversations with Indigenous parents/caregivers on safer sleep options. It encourages informed shared decision making on safer sleep with a focus on the strengths of Indigenous knowledge, cultural values and practices using a two-eyed seeing approach.

The refreshed toolkit has a number of updates and key alignments:

It was informed by Indigenous family members, Elders, and a variety of health-care providers including midwives, registered nurses, birth workers and Doulas.
It is an update from the Honouring Our Babies: Safe Sleep Cards: Facilitator Guide 2017.
It aligns with PSBC’s Safer Infant Sleep resource, which was updated in 2022.
It aligns with best practice recommendations and current clinical guidelines.
It provides key messages for infants at increased risk of sleep-related infant death.
It consists of 21 illustrated cards, four of which have been newly developed, and a facilitator’s guide.