Baby Dies Due To Suffocation As Partner Shares Bed During Night

Suffocation deaths are very common in newborns, infants and young babies as compressed between or by side of a parent as they all share a common bed during sleep at night in their room. Citing an increase in the number of parents sharing beds with their infants as the reason, a US study has suggested that the number of babies dying of suffocation before their first birthday has been rising in recent years. The suffocation death rate for babies younger than 1 year climbed from 12.4 to 28.3 fatalities from 1999 to 2015 for every 1,000 US infants, researchers said.In 2015 alone, this translated into 1,100 infant deaths that were entirely preventable.

The majority of these suffocation fatalities occurred while babies were in bed. “It may be that parents are not following 'safe sleep’ recommendations to place infants in beds without stuffed animals, soft blankets, pillows, and other items…