2 weeks Ago By Tracy Neal
A midwife attending a home birth in a remote area left for a break and returned to a stillbirth situation. The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner found several concerning risk factors meant that it was unsafe for the mother to give birth at home. The midwife was found to have breached the health code and has apologised.
A midwife assigned to help deliver a baby at home in a remote rural area left on a lunch break and arrived back to a tragedy unfolding. The parents claimed the baby was born “pale and floppy” just as the midwife arrived back. The midwife says the mother was in the final throes of delivery as she returned.
Either way, the baby girl was pronounced stillborn after the midwife, the baby’s father and emergency services were unable to revive her..
