Anderson County Deputy Coroner Don McCown said the death of a male infant early Tuesday has been ruled accidental due to unsafe sleeping.

McCown said the baby's mother was breastfeeding in bed around 11 p.m. and both mom and baby fell asleep. Around 2:30 a.m., the father, who had come home from working second shift, went to check on the baby and found him lying face down, not breathing.

The baby was taken to AnMed Health and pronounced dead at 3:26 a.m.

Sgt. J.T. Foster at the Anderson County Sheriff's Office said an accidental death doesn't generally carry any charges, but the investigation is ongoing.

McCown urges parents to not sleep with their babies.

"You should not lay in the bed and breastfeed your baby," he said. "You should always be up to the point that if you do drift off to sleep you'll know it, and you can put your baby in the crib. The safest place for a baby is on its back, in its crib with nothing else."

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