Winter Haven Kiwanis gives a Healthy Start Our Club has committed $1,800 to help the Healthy Start Coalition provide 20 infant cribs and 100 infant reminder creeper outfits (“onesies”) in their Beds 4 Babies campaign. Holly Parker from Healthy Start recently spoke to our Club and provided some insights into the local mortality rates for SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and, more recently in our county, a significant rise in infant suffocations from co-sleeping with an adult. The risk of SIDS is much greater when an infant sleeps on its stomach rather than its back. The one piece creepers carry a reminder message “Back To Sleep” ( and our Kiwanis logo ! ) . Most of the co-sleeping incidents occur when the infant has no other safe place to sleep than with an adult or older sibling due to economic necessity rather than “bonding”. Our underwriting of these cribs and infant outfits, combined with the parenting education efforts from Healthy Start, will go a long way toward providing a much safer infant sleep environment in our immediate area. W.H. Kiwanis has participated in the “Back To Sleep” initiative in years past.