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Overall, the number of SIDS deaths are dropping, but a worrying trend has developed.
Emma Smith, Mother: "I remember her eyes looking alert. I must have dozed off for about an hour, and when I woke up, she was dead."
Emma Smith's daughter Masy was ten weeks old when she died. She'd been fed on the sofa and fallen asleep with her mother. She became another victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
The number of deaths has fallen dramatically in recent years thanks to a successful campaign that parents should put their babies on their backs when they sleep. But there has been an alarming increase in the number of deaths of babies sleeping with their parents on a sofa.
Experts say sleeping with your baby on the couch is dangerous, just don't do it.
