Urgent baby mattress product recall over suffocation fears

An urgent warning has been issued about a cot mattress over safety fears that it could fail to prevent a baby from suffocating.

Leading consumer website Which? has warned customers who bought the Baby Dunlopillo Safer Sleep Cot Bed Mattress, after it failed a number of stringent safety tests.

The main issue is that the mattress may not be firm enough to prevent suffocation, should a baby sleeping on it roll over onto their stomach.

Mattress not firm enough

Between four and 12 weeks, babies begin to roll over in one direction while they are sleeping. This increases the risk of smothering if they are unable to right themselves.

Which? said that babies - especially those under six months old who are less able to roll back - could struggle to breathe if they roll over and their face sinks into the soft mattress.