Black Country parents get free thermometers for babies' rooms
The Health in Pregnancy Service at Walsall Healthcare NHS trust is giving out the thermometers, and The Black Country Integrated Care Board, a local NHS body, is supporting the project.Parents from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Sandwell should have access to the thermometers, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust said. It added the Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System and the Black Country Child Death Review Strategic Partnership were supporting the initiative.Taylor-Jane Daley, a Walsall mum of two whose youngest daughter was born on 25 January, said she was grateful to be given a thermometer."I don't think you realise quite how warm a room has become sometimes," she said in a statement released by the care board."We all want to do what we can to keep our babies safe."The NHS also advises that babies sleep on their backs on a firm mattress, along with other safety measures, in order to reduce the risk of SIDS.The Safer Sleep Week campaign runs until Sunday.
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