Safe Sleep Practices/Policies:

 1) Infants will be placed on their backs in a crib to sleep unless a physician’s written statement authorizing another sleep position for that infant is provided. The written statement must include how the infant shall be placed to sleep and a time frame that the instructions are to be followed.

 2) Cribs shall be in compliance with CPCS and ASTM safety standards. They will be maintained in good repair and free from hazards.

 3) No objects will be placed in or on the crib with an infant. This includes, but is not limited to, covers, blankets, toys, pillows, quilts, comforters, bumper pads, sheepskins, stuffed toys, or other soft items.

 4) No objects will be attached to a crib with a sleeping infant, such as, but not limited to, crib gyms, toys, mirrors and mobiles.

  5) Only sleepers, sleep sacks and wearable blankets provided by the parent/guardian and that fit according to the commercial manufacturer’s guidelines and will not slip up around the infant’s face may be worn for the comfort of the sleeping infant.

 6) Individual crib bedding will be changed daily, or more often as needed, according to the rules

 7) All infants will have his/her own crib and will not be in a crib with another infant unless we are evacuating infants for an emergency.

 8) Infants who arrive at the center asleep or fall asleep in other equipment, on the floor or elsewhere, will moved to a safety-approved crib for sleep.

 9) Staff will conduct visual checks of all infants sleeping, every 15-20 minutes and by doing so will monitor every infant’s breathing patterns, observing the infant’s chest and color or skin.

10) Steps will be taken to keep infants from getting too warm or overheating by regulating the room temperature between 68-75°F and a thermometer will be kept in the room.

 

I acknowledge that I have been advised of the safe sleep practices followed by Dragon Academy.