Baby smothered in parents' bed

A baby boy was smothered as he lay between his sleeping parents on their bed, an inquest has heard.

One-month-old Cameron Pool was moved from a cot to his parents' double bed at their home in Stourden Close, Frenchay, Bristol, on 19 March.

His mother Natalie Forsyth told an inquest in Bristol she laid him down between her and her partner Darren because he had been "whingeing".

But when Mrs Forsyth woke a number of hours later she found Cameron, who had been born on Valentine's Day, lying blue and immobile next to her.

'Tragic accident'

In a statement read to the inquest she said: "I woke up and Darren's arm was over him. Cameron looked blue and wasn't breathing."

The couple tried to revive their son and called an ambulance, but he was pronounced dead two hours later at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital.

Pathologist Consolato Sergi carried out a post-mortem examination and recorded the cause of death as accidental smothering.

Mrs Forsyth, who has two other sons, said the baby was born a healthy 7 lb 14 oz and had been feeding and doing well and appeared to be his "normal self" on the day before the accident.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, coroner Brian Whitehouse said: "This was a tragic death of a very young baby and I'm very satisfied that this was a tragic accident.

"But I have to say that it does underline the dangers of very young babies sleeping on the bed with their parents."