THE parents of a three-month-old baby who died in her sleep have been told ‘nobody is to blame’ for her death.

Samana Fatima Ahmed was found dead in her Moses basket by her dad, Tathar, on July 28, an inquest heard.

Even an post-mortem examination could not determine the baby’s cause of death, Burnley Coroner’s Court was told.

Mr Ahmed, of Mansfield Crescent, Brierfield, said his partner, Sobia Walayat, had struggled to cope for the past three months and spent hours researching cot deaths online.

But East Lancashire Coroner Richard Taylor re-assured her that the infant’s death had nothing to do with the way she slept.

The court was told that Samana was born six weeks prematurely in April and spent two days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Burnley General Hospital until she was able to feed properly. When she returned home she lost more weight and was re-admitted to the NICU before going on to receive her eight-week immunisations as normal.

On July 27, Ms Walayat told her GP that Samana was sweaty and restless but was able to feed her milk at home that night.

The next morning, Mr Ahmed tried to feed her at 3am but she refused and so he kissed her and went to bed.

At 8am the next day Samana, who had been sleeping on her side, was discovered by her parents not breathing and, despite attempts at resuscitation, she was pronounced dead at Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Dr Melanie Newbold, a consultant paediatric pathologist, said there was no sign of injury on the baby’s body, nothing abnormal about her internal organs and no evidence of bacterial or metabolic disease.

She said: “It is by no means rare not to find a cause of death in an infant post-mortem.

“It is possible that she had a seizure or a cardiac arrhythmia, but neither leaves anything we can identify.”

Mr Taylor, recording a conclusion of an undiagnosed, natural, cause of death, said: “There should be no guilt. Nobody is to blame for this.”