A newborn baby has tragically died after he was suffocated under the weight of his mother who fell asleep after breastfeeding at a hospital maternity unit.
The child was born just three days earlier after his 30-year-old mother at the Sandro Pertini hospital in Rome.
An investigation is now under way to see whether hospital rules were violated as regulation stipulates staff should have ensured that the baby was returned to his cot after breastfeeding.
