Melbourne wellness influencer Stacey Warnecke died in hospital after an unassisted home birth in September 2025, attended by her husband and 'birth keeper' Emily Lal, who lacked formal medical training. A coroner is investigating the incident.
Australian wellness influencer Stacey Warnecke died on September 29, 2025, from catastrophic blood loss during an unassisted home birth. She refused ambulance offers until it was too late. The inquest revealed her commitment to a 'freebirth' without medical intervention.
A birthkeeper, Emily Lal, was reported to police by a senior clinician after her client, Stacey Warnecke, died following a home freebirth. Warnecke, a wellness influencer, died from a postpartum hemorrhage after paying Lal $6,000 for support without clinical staff.
A birthkeeper, Emily Lal, was reported to police by a senior clinician after her client, Stacey Warnecke, died following a home freebirth. Warnecke, a wellness influencer, died from a massive postpartum hemorrhage after paying Lal $6,000 for support without clinical staff.
A birthkeeper testified at an inquest that her role was not to make a home birth safer, despite being paid $6,000 for support. The woman she assisted died from a postpartum hemorrhage after a freebirth.
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 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.
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.
