Birthkeeper tells inquest she wasn't there to make birth safer as woman dies from preventable hemorrhage

Stacey Warnecke, 30, died from complications of postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth at home without medical professionals present.

In a courtroom in Australia, an inquest has turned its gaze on the quiet and largely unregulated world of freebirth — where women choose to deliver outside the medical system, and where the people they pay to accompany them claim no responsibility for what unfolds. Stacey Warnecke, thirty years old, died from postpartum hemorrhage after a home birth attended by a birthkeeper who testified this week that her role was never to make the birth safer. The case raises ancient questions about autonomy and care, and a modern one: when someone accepts $6,000 to be present at the most vulnerable moment

Birthkeeper tells inquest she wasn't there to make birth safer as woman dies from preventable hemorrhage

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