Tragic! Mum Falls Asleep While Feeding her Baby at Night…What Happens Next is Heartbreaking
A newborn baby girl less than one month old has died after her mother accidentally fell asleep while she was feeding her in the middle of the night.
Metro UK reports that the little girl, who was just 25 days old at the time, had woken her parents up at 3:30am because she was hungry. She then died in her mother’s arms as the two fell asleep together while sitting up in bed.
Coroner, Anne Pember told the inquest in Northampton:
”She was found lying on her front on the mattress. A post-mortem found evidence that her airway had been blocked.
This was an accidental death and the mother had no intention of falling asleep. Very often, parents will carry their newborn babies to bed with no consequences, but the public must know about the dangers of holding babies in this way.
This is a very sad and untimely death, and the mother had no intention of falling asleep. ”
Previously sleeping and feeding well, in the days leading up to her death she was described as ”clingy and whingy” by her mother and cried when she was put down, the inquest heard.
Sleeping in a cot next to her parents’ bed, her mother said she was woken up for the third time in the early hours of the morning one night in July 2016.
“At around 3.30am, I carried her to bed with me. I sat up and held her in my arms while I fed her. I didn’t mean to fall asleep. She was lying on the mattress next to my hip. She wasn’t breathing.
I woke my partner and he called 999. I don’t remember much of what happened after that,” she stated.
When she woke up it was already 7:15am, and the baby was found dead next to her hip.
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awww.really sad n heart breaking
This is so sad. I don’t want to imagine what the mother is going through right now.