Important advice has been issued to parents about how to safely keep their young children warm throughout the winter.
This advice includes not wrapping babies in too many layers, or co-sleeping with premature babies who are at a higher risk of cot death. Professor Ian Sinha, a consultant respiratory paediatrician at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, described how clinic staff at his hospital have recently been passing out important advice to first-time parents.
Professor Sinha said: "We’ve had to say ‘look, don’t wrap your baby up in lots of layers’ because we know that that is a risk for cot death, and pre-term infants are already at higher risk.
