![]() ![]() Keep the memories of their young babies alive. Interactive virtual community is a source of solace for families looking to The Black Infant Remembrance Memorial, is a black-led movement to make sure no black baby isįorgotten and to provide resources and a community of peer-support online. We must stop normalizing infant death in our communities. The program also includes a mobile unit, that decanters the hospital or doctors office, and goes directly into the community to talk about safe sleep and breastfeeding with moms, dads, grandparents and other caregivers, and provides them with links to community resources.įor those who have unfortunately lost a baby, Listening to families and not just handing out pamphlets.Ĭommunity-centered approaches can include efforts like First Candle’s Straight Talk for Infant Safe Sleep program, which uses trained community ambassadors to work with providers to explore the role of implicit bias in how new and expecting parents are engaged around safe sleep practices. This not only impacted black women’s breastfeeding rates but ignored research that co-sleeping helps regulate infant breathing and thereby can be protective against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).Īctually “culturally relevant” beyond the buzz talk and center communities by For example, a highly criticized 2011 Milwaukee Department of Health campaign featured an infant lying alongside a butcher knife! Similar efforts sought to scare black mothers, but never educate or trust that black women could co-sleep safely. In the US, black mothers became the targets of sensationalized public health campaigns warning about the dangers of co-sleeping. Of bed sharing or the impact of those messages on the breastfeeding But some haveĭemonized co-sleeping in all forms without understanding the cultural nuances To be clear, public health campaigns have hadĬonsiderable success in reducing the rates of SIDS overall. As many health organizations talk about “equity” it’s time to move past business as usual practices to achieve it. As the most advanced nation in the world, we owe it to our most precious and vulnerable citizens to work harder to find solutions that work. Racial disparities in infant mortality, whether from the complications of pre-term birth or low birthweight or the complexities of SIDS, should not exist. Than twice those of non-Hispanic white infants (85.0). Indian/Alaska Native (205.8) and non-Hispanic black infants (181.0) were more Suffocation are two to three times greater among black and brown babies. It is any family’s worse nightmare to lay their baby down to sleepĪt night and the baby does not wake up. Sleep-related deaths, according to the CDC. That includes a disproportionate number of sleep-related infant deaths among black and brown babies from either Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed (ASSB.) Both of the tragedies fall under the Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID) category. In 2016, the black infant mortality rate in the United States was 11.4 deaths per 1,000 live births compared to 4.6 deaths per 1,000 for white infants. Too many cities across the US, including my home city of Detroit, have disproportionately high black infant mortality rates. *All data in the above surveys relate to non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites.Across the infant death spectrum, black babies are disproportionately affected. Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, 2018 ![]() Percentage of mothers who smoked during pregnancy, 2019 Percentage of mothers who received late or no prenatal care, 2019 Births: Final Data for 2019 National Vital Statistics Reports. Table 4.Ĭharacteristics of Mother Percentage of mothers who received prenatal care (first trimester), 2019 Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2018 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set. ![]() Leading Causes of Infant Mortality Infant deaths and mortality rates for the top 5 leading causes of death for African Americans, 2018 (Rates per 100,000 live births) Infant Mortality Rate Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, 2018 In 2018, Non-Hispanic black/African American mothers were twice as likely to receive late or no prenatal care as compared to non-Hispanic white mothers.Non-Hispanic black/African American infants had twice the sudden infant death syndrome mortality rate as non-Hispanic whites, in 2018.Non-Hispanic black/African American infants are four times as likely to die from complications related to low birthweight as compared to non-Hispanic white infants.Non-Hispanic blacks/African Americans have 2.3 times the infant mortality rate as non-Hispanic whites.
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