BAKER CITY, Ore. — Baker County authorities are investigating the death of a 5-week-old boy who died of asphyxiation caused by co-sleeping.
The Baker City Herald reports (https://is.gd/WLeOv4 ) the baby had been sleeping with his mother when he died last weekend. The baby’s father was also home at the time.
District Attorney Matt Shirtcliff said in a press release that an autopsy was conducted Monday in Portland.
Shirtcliff said he and his staff helped establish a Cribs for Kids program in Baker County after three babies died of “positional asphyxiation” linked to co-sleeping in 2009 and another two died last year.
