A 6-week-old baby named Noah Pearson (pictured
above), suffocated to death in his sleep after being deprived of oxygen
while sleeping in between his parent in bed at their home in Bradford,
in West Yorkshire.
According to the UK Telegraph, Noah's parents, Paul
Pearson 24 and Emily Lambert 22, had left him with his grandmother while
they went out with
friends for drinks for the first time in a year. They
returned at about 3.30am the following day drunk but still took their
baby from the grandmother... Noah's father took him into their room to
sleep in his Moses basket which was placed by his side of their bed. But
when Noah started to cry around 5am, his father took him from the Moses
basket and brought him into the bed he shared with his partner and
placed him between them. When the couple woke up at about 8.50am, they
found blood coming out from Noah's nostrils. He was immediately taken to
the Bradford Royal hospital where test showed he died from Sudden
Infant Death syndrome after being deprived of oxygen. At an inquest, a
doctor warned of the dangers of parents sleeping with their babies as a
coroner said a contributary factor in Noah's death on May 31 was
"co-sleeping and parental alcohol consumption". 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. Dr Moya said: "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: UK Telegraph
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