Six-week-old baby suffocated and died sleeping next to parents

The parents of  the child, Paul Pearson, 24, and 22-year-old Emily Lambert, placed their son Noah in a Moses basket next to their bed when they got back to their home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, at 3.30am on May 31. At 5 am, Noah woke up crying, he was fed and carried to bed where he was cradled until he fall sleep between his parents.

When the couple woke up at about 8.50am, they found blood coming out from Noah's nostrils. He was immediately taken to the hospital where test showed that he died from Sudden Infant Death syndrome after being deprived of oxygen.

Consultant paediatrician Dr Eduardo Moya told the hearing that the parents’ decision to co-sleep with their baby and having consumed alcohol that night may have contributed to their baby’s death.

He said "baby Noah was found to have a minor rhino virus, akin to a nose cold".

“The not deliberate and unfortunate set of circumstances is well-documented – bed sharing with parents combined with alcohol consumption. Furthermore one or both of the parents did smoke and that could be a contributory factor as that baby had a rhino viral infection. There are a series of risk factors that increase the likelihood of having SIDS. One reason bed sharing is considered dangerous is that one parents could roll on to the infant in the middle of the night.”

“This was a tragedy and there is nobody as fault but I believe it is important to know the etymology of SIDS. These are contributory factors because we don’t know the ultimate cause of SIDS. I pass my condolences on to the family. It was clear to me when I went to see them that nobody did anything wrong or deliberate. It was an unfortunate tragedy.”

Source: Daily Mail