Baby died after mother fell asleep in hospital

A PARTIALLY-SIGHTED woman told an inquest yesterday how her two-day old son died after she apparently fell asleep having breast fed him in a maternity ward bed.

Press Association journalist Lisa Salmon, 36, said hospital staff had given her baby Conor to feed in bed despite her being registered blind and having hardly any sleep for three days.

She told a coroner that Conor had been born normally at Leeds General Hospital (LGI) on January 30, 2002, weighing in at 7lbs 6oz.