Authorities are searching for answers after a mother and her newborn died within days of each other after a homebirth ended in tragedy.

Manchester woman Jennifer Cahill, 34, never got to hold her newborn daughter after giving birth on June 3, 2024.

She died a day later and her daughter, Agnes, survived just four days before she, too, passed away.

An inquest into Ms Cahill’s death is underway, with her husband Rob telling the Rochdale Coroner’s Court he called the 999 emergency line at around 6.45m on June 3 after Agnes was born unresponsive and the nurse attending the homebirth was unable to revive her.

He went to the hospital with Agnes and only later discovered Ms Cahill also had to be rushed to hospital suffering complications from the birth.

The couple’s decision to have a homebir

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