CPSC, Gerber, BPHC, BET Launch Campaign to Lower African- American SIDS Rates:
New Survey Finds African-Americans less likely to place babies to sleep on their backs; SIDS rates twice as high as other groups
Press Release # 00-144
Transcript
Background music playing
- Wife coming home and greeting her husband with "Hey you!"
- Husband (who is in baby's room) answers "Hey, don't come in here, I have a surprise (the surprise is a new crib that is full of comforters and pillows with the baby in the middle.
- Wife says: "The doctors told me some new things about keeping our baby safe from SIDS and suffocation. Did you know that we're not supposed to put any pillows in the crib?"
- Husband answers: "Oh, yeah" and takes the pillows out of the crib.
- Wife: "No comforters either."
- Husband takes comforter out of crib.
- Wife: "We're always supposed to make sure we put our baby on its back in the crib.
- Husband puts baby on its back.
- Wife comes into the room, smiles, hug her husband and says "just a crib!"
- Then she looks at him and says: "How did you know about putting her in the crib?"
- He answers: "Hey, I know these things."
- Screen reading: "Keep Your Baby Safe" in big white letters and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission; www.cpsc.gov in small white letters.
- End