'Singapore baby being breastfed suffocated to death when mother fell asleep'

In her written findings following a coroner’s inquiry, State Coroner Kamala Ponnampalam said that unintentional suffocation is a “known hazard of the side-lying method of breastfeeding”.This method should be practised only if a third person is there to observe mother and child, the coroner added, referring to the testimony of a senior nurse manager at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital , where the baby was born in August last year.

The mother said that she would tuck the baby under her arm, like a football, when she fed him. Alternatively, she would lie on the mattress side by side with the baby. She carried him out of his crib, placed him on the bed on her left, and fed him using her left breast. Her left arm was stretched out above her head underneath the pillow.

When he arrived there, he was in critical condition and was not breathing. Resuscitation efforts proved futile and he was pronounced dead that morning at 5am.

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