A healthy baby girl died after sleeping on a duvet between her parents, an inquest has heard.

The hearing heard Macey Mower’s parents had organised a family barbecue at their home in Gillingham in May last year.

With relatives sleeping upstairs, five-week-old Macey slept on a duvet between her parents in the living room, feet away from an empty Moses basket.

Evidence given at last Wednesday’s inquest at Archbishop’s Palace in Maidstone heard Macey was last seen alive at midnight and was lying with her back on the duvet.

But the following morning, Macey’s mother Rebecca Champ awoke just after 5am to find Macey lying face down, blue and unresponsive.

Ambulance crews arrived within three minutes of Miss Champ’s 999 call and Macey was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Miss Champ and Macey’s father Billy Mower told police they had drunk five beers each at the barbecue, Mr Mower had also drunk a vodka orange.

Both denied a voluntary blood test, while a search of the family home discovered an open bottle of vodka and an empty bottle of coke in the living room.

Following her death, two post mortems showed no evidence Macey had suffered harm or intentional suffocation.

Neither post mortem could give a medical cause of death, but did suggest positional asphyxiation was a likely cause.

Concluding the inquest, assistant coroner Katrina Hepburn ruled Macey’s death as due to misadventure due to positional asphyxiation.