ACCIDENTAL INFANT DEATH AND STROLLER-PRAMS

A three-month-old boy and an eight-month-old boy died from accidental positional asphyxia and hanging, respectively, after being placed to s leep unsupervised in stroller-prams. Both infants had moved down towar ds the fronts of the stroller-prams. The younger infant fell out when the footplate collapsed and he was found hanging from a metal bar on t he side. The older infant had partly slipped through the front and was suspended with his head and arms within the stroller-pram and with hi s face pushed firmly into the mattress by a horizontal metal bar. Stro ller-prams are a potentially dangerous sleeping environment unless inf ants are closely supervised gaps in the front of stroller-prams closed and upright footplates stabilised.