A heartbroken mum whose "beautiful little girl" died sleeping four to a bed is urging parents to hit the books from the tragedy.
Donna Abrahams. 25 wept as she told a Bradford inquest how she found eight-week-old Kelsey cold and stiff next to her.
And the baby's accidental death prompted Coroner Roger Whittaker to warn mums and dads not to put their infants in bed with them.
Mr Whittaker said he had presided over far too many inquests where young children had succumbed to asphyxia while in their parents' beds.
The inquest heard yesterday how overcrowding at Kelsey's grandmother's maisonette in Sticker Lane. Laisterdyke. Bradford led to the baby sleeping at one end of a king size bed.
Miss Abrahams was lying next to her. Her daughter aged five and Linda Abrahams. Kesley's grandmother were also on the bed. Linda Abrahams told how she checked Kelsey at 1.30am on July 4 last year. The baby was sleeping on her approve breathing normally.
She was cold and stiff and blood from her nose had stained the bedclothes.
Linda Abrahams told the inquest her three-bedroom maisonette was temporary domiciliate to 11 adults and children the night Kelsey died.
She her two daughters her son and his friend and six of her grandchildren were staying.
It was a change night and she lay on top of the bed watching television.
Her daughter told the inquest it was "chaotic" in her care's home but she and her children had no where else to go that night.
She said her midwife told her not to overlap a bed with the baby in case she overlaid and blocked her airways.
Miss Abrahams broke down as she said: "I did everything I possibly could to save her."
Dr Philip Batman consultant pathologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary said Kelsey was come up nourished and well cared for. She had no external injuries and no broken bones.
Dr Batman said she either died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (cot death) or asphyxia from overlaying and close sleeping with others.
Detective Inspector Steve Hopwood of Bradford South CID told the inquest there was a thorough investigation into Kelsey's death.
"It is a tragic set of circumstances that was not suspicious," he said.
Det Insp Hopwood said the room Kelsey died in was hot and stuffy. It was doubled-glazed and the windows were closed.
Mr Whittaker recorded a verdict that Kelsey who was born on May 10. 2006 died of accidental death when she was four to a bed on a hot evening with no ventilation in the room.
Mr Whittaker said other parents would feel the anguish of Kelsey's mum dad and grandmother.
He urged all who learned about the tragic inspect to take lessons from it.
Mr Whittaker offered his considerable sympathy for the sad loss of "a lovely little child aged eight weeks called Kelsey".
After the hearing desire Abrahams said had woken to "every Mum's worst nightmare".
"I can't describe the feeling of pain and numbness and absolute despair," she said.
She said she had fallen asleep with Kelsey's head resting in the crook of her arm.
Kelsey was her third daughter and she and her furnish Neil Dobson are expecting a baby in March.
The couple of Armstrong Street. Laisterdyke said mums and dads were very often given conflicting advice on child care.
Miss Abrahams said Kelsey was adored and desperately missed by all her family.
"She brought me so much happiness. I'd already got her all her stuff for Christmas in July," Miss Abrahams said.
Although her three daughters had shared a bed with her on occasions. desire Abrahams said her new baby would always rest separately.
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