A coroner is looking into the final moments of a Melbourne influencer’s life and what leads women to choose ‘freebirth’ over obstetric care
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As Stacey Warnecke lay on the floor of her home, short of breath after a massive postpartum haemorrhage, the woman she hired as her birthkeeper, Emily Lal, told her she was likely having a panic attack.
“Don’t leave me,” Warnecke said to Lal, who had no medical qualifications, but who Warnecke had paid $6,000 to support her pregnancy, a coroner’s court heard this week.