New Rules Out for Our State

[Country Kids]

CK, are providers in your state required to take SUIDS/AHT training as part of the initial and continuing process of being licensed?

In my state we are required to take some form of those trainings on a yearly basis so the car seat rule would be moot for us as the SIDS/AHT training would demonstrate and teach us about safe sleep.

I would "hope" providers are smart enough to at least understand the concept of CYA in regards to best practices but since that isn't a guarantee...

Of course, there are providers out there that do know and are required to follow safe sleep practices and still don't.

No trainings at all-I learned most of that here on this forum! Never ever have heard anything on the car seat sleeping as a parent or as a provider.

[Country Kids]

Very true. I was thinking along the lines of parents insisting the provider lets the baby sleep and not take him out.

It seems silly that they changed this rule. There has been so much emphasis on safe sleep, now they are making exceptions. The rule was there for a reason to begin with, why change it?

I can see where providers WOULD want it changed. If the baby arrives sleeping and you move him to a play pen, most of the time he will wake up and not go back to sleep, which can be a pain. But why take a chance?

There was never a rule so they didn't change anything. This was actually a very new rule-nothing before has ever been in our book about carseats.

[Unregistered]

It also says we can use a couch or bed for toddlers. A 1 year old sleeping on the couch???..........

[Unregistered]

We just received our new rules in the mail-yea!!!!

1. Toddlers, preschoolers and school agers must sleep on a bed, mat or cot.
Toddlers start at 12 months

Could a pnp mattress be considered a mat? I think so. Word play...