Little Holly-Mae Heys had no medical issues but was found unresponsive in her Moses basket just moments after her father rolled up a cannabis joint at breakfast time.
Her father Richard Heys told the inquest how he desperately tried to revive the tot after discovering she wasn't breathing.
But she was pronounced dead in hospital despite attempts to revive her with tests showing the cause of death as ''unascertained.''
The hearing was told a paramedic called to Holly Mae's family home in Accrington, Lancs, recalled the house being in a ''poor state from the outside'' adding there was a ''strong smell of cannabis and the house appeared dirty and dishevelled.''
A paediatric pathologist who examined the youngster's body also believed the baby may have been put to bed in a "potentially unsafe sleeping environment" with clothes and other items inside the Moses basket.
The tragedy on February 3 occurred less than three weeks after Holly was born at 38 weeks by emergency caesarean.
She was bottle fed and taken home by parents Bethany Rowley, 23, and 39-year old Heys, a former fire service worker.
On the night before the infant died, Miss Rowley was struck down with a bout of gastroenteritis and went back into hospital for checks due to concerns arising out the C-section - leaving Mr Heys to look after the baby over night.
Miss Rowley, a student, told the Blackburn inquest: "Holly-Mae had been her usual self and although she was a bit more whingey there was nothing that couldn't be comforted or sorted.
- Mirror
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