Search: Gwent baby blanket
Police trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found dead behind a convenience store have released a photograph of a blanket found with the body.
Gwent Police hope the move will encourage the mother or someone who knows her to come forward.
The photograph shows a light blue fleece blanket with curved corners and stitched edges with a "Baby bear" motif in one of the corners.
The abandoned baby, who officers have named Patrick, was found behind a Spar shop on Newport Road, Cwmcarn, south Wales, last Thursday evening and was pronounced dead in hospital. A post mortem has proved inconclusive.
Shopkeeper Gursewak Singh, 39, later said he saw a Next carrier bag near the back of his shop last Thursday, but thought it was gym kit belonging to one of the patrons of the nearby boxing club.
Last week police released photographs of the clothes the baby was wearing and the towels he was wrapped in.
The pictures showed a blue and white striped long sleeved top, a white Dunelm towel with a gingerbread man and heart design on it, and an orange beach towel manufactured by Arencibia, an outlet based on Gran Canaria. Police said they also found an orange vest top from George in a size 14.
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Superintendent Jon Burley, of Gwent Police, said: "We are continuing our investigation and, again, would like to reiterate that our main concern lies with the health and wellbeing of the mother who may need support physically and undoubtedly, emotionally.
"We continue to appeal for information in an effort to identify the mother of the baby, who we have named Patrick as we believe he would have been born on or around St Patrick's Day, or for anyone who has information that may help the investigation.
"We are quite sure that someone out there has an idea of who she is - she must have been very heavily pregnant until recently. The images we have released are of quite distinctive items. While the Next top and the white towel look new, so they must have been bought very recently, the blue fleece blanket doesn't look new, so we would appeal to anyone who might have given it to a charity shop or perhaps have put it into a car boot sale to contact us. The orange towel could perhaps have been brought back from a holiday on Gran Canaria recently."
