Baby dies after getting trapped against chest of drawers

A baby died just hours after standing up for the first time when he climbed out of his cot and got trapped against a chest of drawers.Noah Ivey was just eight months old and just starting to crawl when he was killed in the freak accident.
He climbed out of his cot onto the chest while still in his baby sleeping bag then fell with his chin trapped against the edge of the chest, preventing him from breathing.
His horrified parents Fiona and Neal found him trapped, lying limp and lifeless when they went to get him up the next morning, an inquest heard today.

Plymouth coroner Mr Ian Arrow recorded a verdict of accidental death on Noah, who died at the family home in Granby Street, Devonport, in Devon, in February.
He warned other parents of the fresh dangers they face as soon as a child starts to become mobile after being told Noah had raised himself onto his feet on his own as he climbed up a sofa just before he went to bed that night.He said: 'When children reach the point of becoming mobile there comes a time when they may move from a safe environment into a potentially dangerous environment.
'I hope other parents will be alert to that having heard the tragic circumstances of this case.
'It must have been such a very great shock for the parents to find Noah in such an unusual position that morning.'Pathologist Dr Martin Webber said Noah died from 'positional asphyxia'.
He said: 'I note that he had been observed to pull himself up to stand for the first time shortly before his death.'It is possible he climbed onto the chest of drawers then fell between it and the cot.'
Dr Carolyn Adcock, who met the family when they came into Derriford Hospital, said: 'Noah's parents saw him pull himself up onto his feet for the first time at 4.45 pm the previous day.
'He had been crawling for a few days.
'His mother went into his room a 1.30 am and heard him breathing but at 6.30 am she went to his cot and he was not there.'She thought he was with Neal but when she discovered he was not she went back in and put on the light and found him suspended between the cot and the chest of drawers which they used as a changing table.'She was distraught and screamed for her husband who found the baby floppy and cold.
'We believe he climbed from his cot onto the chest. It is difficult to envisage how he fell feet first through the gap but he may have been lying obliquely across the chest.
'He then fell so his chin came to rest on the edge of the chest. The gap was not large enough for his head to get through.'Detective Constable Kate Hillman said it was likely Noah woke early and pulled himself out of the cot before falling into the gap.
Noah's father Neal, a recruitment consultant, and grandfather Roger, are now raising money to put up a memorial bench in Devonport Park.
Speaking at the inquest Roger Ivey said: 'We are all extremely grateful to the police and everyone else who has helped us. 'It has given us a good feeling about the way in which our society works.'

Source :Dailymail