Coroner finds baby's death after home birth was preventable

Home birth: Deficient midwives and risky home birth led to baby’s death, coroner rules

Two private midwives waited too long to transfer a mother to hospital in Bendigo, starving her newborn of oxygen and causing his death six days after an emergency caesarean.

Bendigo home birth tragedy ‘avoidable’ coroner finds

A Bendigo mother was “not suitable” for a home birth and should have been taken to hospital sooner, which would have prevented the death of her baby — a coroner has found.

Coroner finds baby's death after home birth was preventable

A Victorian coroner has found a baby's death could have been avoided if his mother had been transferred to hospital hours earlier, after signs of an obstructed labour.