A Melbourne wellness influencer, Stacey Warnecke, 30, died from a treatable postpartum hemorrhage complication after a home birth without medical staff. An inquest heard she was found in an altered state of consciousness with a large blood clot before being rushed to hospital, where she later died.
A Hong Kong doctor and a children's rights group have warned that unassisted home births and vaccine refusal pose life-threatening risks to mothers and newborns. Their concerns follow the arrest of a couple suspected of child neglect after they refused to register their third child's birth and submit to a DNA test.
Hong Kong lawmakers are calling for government intervention in a case where an infant, Danny, is in legal limbo due to parents' refusal of DNA testing for a birth certificate on privacy and religious grounds. The parents are also involved in a custody dispute in Sweden over their daughter Lily.
An inquest has found that the NHS failed a mother whose baby died a week after an unsafe home birth that went against medical advice. Poppy Hope Lomas was seven days old when she died on 26 October 2022 at University College Hospital in London after complications during a home birth encouraged by midwives at Barnet Hospital. The senior coroner said the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust had supported an "unsafe home delivery" and failed to address "an accumulation of risk factors". The mother had previously had a caesarean section, and guidance states vaginal births after caesarean should take place in a suitably equipped delivery suite.
An inquest has found that NHS trusts failed a mother by not recognising complications during a high-risk home birth in Enfield, north London, which led to the death of seven-day-old Poppy Hope Lomas. The coroner said the failure to act on warning signs was a serious lapse in care, with an ambulance not called until two minutes after birth when the baby showed no signs of life.
