Table 5.

Quotes about influences on parental sleep decisions

Q1. When I was pregnant I went to a Safe Sleep seminar and they taught me about how different things can happen when the baby’s sleeping, suffocated so I just took they advice and I just…let her sleep by herself. [African-American Mother]

Q2. It would be nice if you have a nurse that came into your room maybe and just spent 10 min with you and showed you a couple of tips face-to-face or even instructed you as you did it.” [African-American Mother]

Q3. It’s a mixed message I think with the industry and then the safety part of it but it’s also just it’s not going to happen to me. I’m not going to, you know it’s not going to happen to me…just because—you think you’re a good mom and you try your best and you’ll never intentionally do it. [American Indian Mother]

Q4. I just been informed about how safe it is and how better it is to have your baby sleeping on their back so that’s just—then one of my relative’s daughter she passed away from SIDS and it was kind of a situation where the lady had her sleeping and all the stuff they had in the crib… so that kind of sticks in my head. [African-American Mother]

Q5. I’m not going to lie or nothing. Even though we talk about don’t sleep with my baby I’m still going to go home and sleep with my baby. I probably wouldn’t have nothing to tell nobody because as soon as I leave here and go lay down, my baby going to go sleep with me. [African-American Mother]

Q6. Like I think it’s right but I still do what’s comfortable for my baby [so that] I can get him to sleep. [American Indian Mother]

Q7. I listen more to the elderly people because like the social workers and stuff some of them don’t have kids. They just go by the book so what works for people that use the book might not work for the other people. So I feel like I listen more to like my grandparents or something. [African-American Mother]

Q8. Sometimes if you have a friend who you know is a good mother and they’ve had kids that are older than yours. You guys had kids at the same time but her baby’s been through this and your baby hasn’t exactly gotten there yet, you know, a mom-to-mom experiences makes a world of difference sometimes. [African-American Mother]

Q9. I’m adamant about the crib. Not in the bed which gets a little bit difficult with mother’s breast feeding, it’s real easy … for her to nurse in the bed. But I guess that’s where I kind of stepped in and when he’s done I’ll take him out put him in the bassinet. We normally do about 3 months in the bassinet in the bedroom and then they gently get kicked out into their own room with a monitor. [African-American Male supporter]

Q10. Yeah definitely crib. Well I try to put her in the crib you know…I‘m not [always] there at night. So but when I’m there definitely I try to do the crib. [African-American Male supporter]