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The deaths of a mother and baby after a horror home birth have been described as ‘one of the most tragic incidents’ in one doctor’s 40-year career.

Jennifer Cahill, 34, died in hospital on June 3, 2024, after giving birth at her family home in Prestwich which she shared with her husband, Robert Cahill, and their first child. Their second child, baby Agnes, also died in hospital four days later .

Agnes was born not breathing, covered in meconium and with the umbilical cord around her neck, before Mrs Cahill suffered a postpartum haemorrhage, with experts estimating up to two litres of blood lost. The pair were rushed to hospital separately following the whole host of complications.

Mrs Cahill's cause of death was multi-organ failure due to cardiac arrest , due to pos

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