www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232265/Breastfeeding-mum-smothers-baby-jet-falling-asleep.html
"A mother accidentally smothered her baby daughter to death on a flight after she fell asleep while breastfeeding.
The four-week-old girl was travelling with her Egyptian mother from Washington DC to Kuwait when the tragedy occurred on November 24.
A mother accidentally smothered her baby daughter to death on a flight after she fell asleep while breastfeeding.
The four-week-old girl was travelling with her Egyptian mother from Washington DC to Kuwait when the tragedy occurred on November 24.
Officers from Scotland Yard's Child Abuse Investigation Team are now dealing with the incident.
The Association of Breastfeeding Mothers said: 'Sitting up in bed while holding your baby is very dangerous, especially if you fall asleep.'
In 2004, Briton Lisa Briggs smothered her baby as they slept less than three years after losing another child to a similar tragedy.
Miss Briggs, 23, fell asleep while feeding five-week-old Keitha and woke in the morning to find her lifeless by her side.
Miss Briggs had lost her four-week-old
daughter Cerese in identical circumstances.
However the Royal College of Midwives said in 2006 there are some benefits for breastfeeding mothers to share a bed with their babies, and a blanket message advising them not to do it could be counter-productive.
Melanie Every, a regional manager for the Royal College, said: 'We know that there are many, many cultures and many, many women who will continue to share beds with their babies, even when they are advised not to do it.
'Now, knowing that, it's important to give them advice on the safest possible way of doing it, rather than just saying don't do it.'
Babies can die of suffocation when their airways are obstructed by lying against their mother - a phenomenon known as 'overlying'.
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She was in business class.