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A six-month-old baby died after their mother who had drunk 'two or three' bottles of wine fell asleep holding them, a safeguarding report has found.
The father arrived home from work to discover the infant's 'apparently lifeless' body in between the sleeping mother and the arm of the chair.
Despite attempts to resuscitate the child, they died two days later.
Following the baby's tragic death, the mother, who had a history of 'chaotic alcohol abuse', said she had drunk up to three bottles of wine and fallen asleep holding the baby.
The details of the baby's death have been released in a report published by Derby and Derbyshire Children's Safeguarding Board
The harrowing details of the child's death have been released in a report published by Derby and Derbyshire Children's Safeguarding Board.
It found the child, referred to as Baby A, had suffered 'preventable harm' and had 'died from oxygen deprivation to the brain as the result of unsafe sleeping with neglect a significant feature of the case'.
Baby A's mother had a history of substance abuse linked to times of stress, including when she underwent fertility treatment for her first pregnancy with another child, the report found.
The woman, who also had a toddler, had received medication for depression and anxiety between her
