AN UNQUALIFIED ‘water birth expert’ was arrested in connection with a new-born baby drowning an hour after he was born.
Giving birth at home or in the car when you were planning on making it to the hospital or birth center? Totally not the plan – and definitely not common, despite what TV dramas would have you believe.
Home births are on the rise among women who feel dismissed by or skeptical of the medical establishment.
The baby's mother tells an inquest the midwives were "scrambled together" due to staffing shortages.