A mother whose baby daughter died suddenly at five weeks old has shared her story to help prevent other deaths.
Maggie Burnell's daughter Louise Victoria was an apparently healthy child when she was born.
But just weeks later her family's lives were turned upside down when she was found lifeless in her cot.
Maggie says: "My son Andrew, who was eight, came into the bedroom and went to the cot as normal. He said something like 'Mummy, she's not waking up'."
Panic set in as Maggie found Louise cold and motionless. Paramedics were called and Maggie's then husband tried to revive their daughter but she could not be saved.
Maggie said: "I remember the gut anguish. We were devastated, shocked.
"In those days at antenatal class you had a live baby to bath and Louise had due to go the next day to be the live baby for the class. It sounds ridiculous but I felt really guilty I'd deprived them of their live baby.
"As time went on I'd meet people from my antenatal class and they'd ask what I got. I'd say, 'I got a little girl but she's died.' They didn't know what to say."
A postmortem revealed no known reason for Louise's death which, for Maggie, left unanswered questions and feelings of guilt.
She says: "I think everybody in my situation lives with questions of 'Did I do anything wrong?' and 'If I'd done something differently would she be alive today?'
"The only things I can think of now are she was laid on her tummy, which was the advice of the day, she was quite well wrapped up because that's what we were told to do and it was quite a hot night. Whether those things had anything to do with it and whether she had a little bit of infection I'll never know but to this day I live with that 'what if?'.
"You can come to terms with it but there are always unanswered questions."
That was 1984 and a few years after Louise's death, the advice on babies' sleeping positions changed and the Back to Sleep campaign was launched, urging parents to lay their youngsters on their backs whenever they put them down for a rest.
The number of deaths caused by SIDS - previously known as cot death - has dropped by 80 per cent since the 1991 campaign but four babies a week still die in the UK with no known cause.
Between 2006 and 2015, SIDS claimed the lives of 391 babies in the North West, with 34 dying in 2015 alone.
Maggie, 67, who works as a funeral celebrant, volunteers as a befriender for SIDS awareness charity The Lullaby Trust, supporting other families who have experienced SIDS.
She is also keen to raise awareness of what parents and carers can do to reduce the chances of SIDS claiming their children's lives. This week is Safer Sleep Week, which raises awareness of SIDS.
Maggie, of Arlecdon, said: "I'm really pleased that the advice has come out and that the incidents of SIDS have gone down dramatically but it twists the knife in my heart. The guilt bit comes out - 'What if I'd done this?' It's really hard.
"There are still people the safer sleep message doesn't get through to. Unless it's pushed by everybody it won't get through.
"If the safer sleep advice had been around when Louise was born things might have been different.
"It'll never eliminate SIDS but it's cut down the numbers dramatically."
Maggie is urging all parents and parents-to-be to find and follow safer sleep advice.
She says: "Get advice form professionals and from The Lullaby Trust's website. I was probably quite naive when I had Louise but there wasn't the same means of transmitting knowledge. Information is so much more readily available now."
Having gone on to have two further children, Maggie is also encouraging any families who have been affected by SIDS to find out about the trust's Care of Next Infant (CONI) scheme for bereaved parents or CONI+ scheme for extended families if they are having another child.
Maggie says: "There was no CONI scheme when I had my sons but the hospital was very good. They showed us how to do CPR on a baby and gave us a monitor to reassure us the baby was breathing. It was an absolute godsend."
Safer Sleep Week runs until Sunday. For more details and advice on safer sleep visit www.lullabytrust.org.uk
SIDS does not just happen in cots. It can happen anywhere a baby is placed to sleep.
Put your baby on their back for every sleep, day and night, as the chance of SIDS is particularly high for babies who are sometimes placed on their front or side.
Keep your baby’s room at a comfortable temperature, ideally between 16 -20°C. The chance of SIDS is higher in babies who get too hot.
If a mother or her partner smokes during pregnancy or after the baby is born, the risk of SIDS is greatly increased.
Some research suggests that using a dummy when putting a baby down to sleep could reduce the risk of SIDS but it is advised to wait until after breastfeeding is established.
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