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Parents who have engaged in alcohol abuse should not sleep next to their babies, a coroner warns.
A coroner has warned parents not to sleep in the same bed as their children after engaging in alcohol abuse.
The advice follows several unrelated cases in the town of Bournemouth earlier this year in which two children died in these situations.
Sheriff Payne, the coroner, made the comments during inquests into the incidents, which occurred at a time when the parents had been engaged in alcohol abuse.
Reading advice from the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, he stated: "It's especially dangerous for your baby to sleep in your bed if you or your partner … have been drinking alcohol, take medication or drugs that make you drowsy."
He also identified additional risks if the infant was premature, had a low birth weight or is under three months old.
The cases which prompted Mr Payne's comments were that of Jennifer North and Darren Frith, who engaged in alcohol abuse before returning home.
A second case earlier that year involved 16-month-old Aiden, whose parents had been drinking and whose father smoked marijuana prior to the incident, took the child into their bed because it would not settle and later woke to find him dead.
In recent related news, a study published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing claims disruptions to a mother's sleep pattern can be mirrored in her infant child's.
The research recommends mothers of young children do not engage in alcohol abuse for four hours prior to sleeping in order to minimise this effect.
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