Users on the website, called Bubbalicious, can chat with other youngparents and upload photographs. The site carries a four-level babycarechallenge, and those who successfully complete it are awarded the titleof Top Dad or Big Sister and allowed to give advice to other parents onthe site.
The launch of the site comes as a four-year study by Bristol University,funded by FSID, found that half of all sudden unexplained infant deathsoccur when parents smoke, drink or take drugs and sleep with their babyin their bed or on the sofa.
The researchers warned that parents and carers should never putthemselves in a situation where they might fall asleep with a younginfant on a sofa.
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