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Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:22 | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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The government was urged yesterday to issue a strong warning to parents who sleep with their babies after an inquest into the smothering of a five-week-old baby whose sister died the same way five years ago.
The West Yorkshire coroner, Roger Whitaker, who recorded a verdict of accidental death for Keitha Briggs, said he was appealing for simpler “commonsense rules”.
Keitha died after her mother, Lisa, 23, fell asleep while feeding her and her twin brother Wayne in January this year.
Mr Whitaker said: "I had hoped after the previous tragedy never to sit or preside over a death in similar circumstances again. I shall be writing again in the hope of getting a response. The message is: separate sleeping saves lives."
The same coroner led the inquest in 2003after Mrs Briggs’ daughter Cerese was smothered aged just four weeks when her mother rolled onto her in bed.
At the time he said: "It is a well-known fact that all mothers with young children are likely to be extremely tired when they go to bed and may not be able to be totally aware of what is going on.
"The dangers of overlaying are so severe and so tragic I believe it ought to be stopped."
The inquest followed a police investigation which found no suspicious circumstances.
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