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Teaching parents the safest ways for their infants to sleep is a mission at Upstate, through its Family Birth Center, Upstate Golisano Children‘s Hospital and its outpatient clinics. The goal is to prevent sleep-related injuries and deaths, explains Michelle Jeski, left, a nurse at the children‘s hospital. Among things to avoid: sleeping in the same bed as the infant, falling asleep on a couch with the infant or having objects in the crib, she says. The children‘s hospital was Teaching parents the safest ways for their infants to sleep is a mission at Upstate, through its Family Birth Center, Upstate Golisano Children‘s Hospital and its outpatient clinics. The goal is to prevent sleep-related injuries and deaths, explains Michelle Jeski, left, a nurse at the children‘s hospital. Among things to avoid: sleeping in the same bed as the infant, falling asleep on a couch with the infant or having objects in the crib, she says. The children‘s hospital was recently honored for its commitment to safe infant sleep pra