A new US-based study, published in the journal Paediatrics, has said that mothers do not put their babies to sleep in a safe position. The safest way to put an infant to sleep is to put them on their backs, on a mattress fitted with a tight sheet and no blankets or pillows. The new […]

A mother had suffocated her newborn son by mistake at a hospital in Oregon, US, in 2012. Monica Thompson is now suing the hospital in which her baby boy was born. A nurse had taken him to her for breastfeeding and put him next to her on her bed. An hour later, Thompson realised that […]