New Irish study shows bed sharing babies more likely to suffer cot death

BABIES who share their parents’ beds are more likely to suffer cot death, according to researchers at one of the country’s leading hospitals.

A study released yesterday by experts at Dublin’s Temple Street Children’s University Hospital found 49% of infants who died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome had been sharing a bed with an adult.

Professor Tom Matthews, head of the national SIDS register at Temple Street, urged mothers and fathers to heed the warning.