Shirin Kale
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first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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An inquest is always interesting because the coroner has to grapple with a number of questions in this case around not just cause of deaths, but also around prevention and some of the reasons why Stacey Warnicke chose a particular type of care.
And one of the central questions for this particular inquest is why are women increasingly
choosing to have low or no intervention births, deciding to entirely shun evidence-based medical care and instead give birth at home without any medical practitioners present.
And it's been quite interesting to hear some of the reasons that women are choosing to do that.
Yeah, so Stacey was a nutritionist and she was about to become a first-time mother at 30 years old.
And she was really worried about unnecessary interventions.
So things like cesarean or forceps or epidurals.
She didn't want any of those interventions.
She wanted to try and give birth as naturally as possible.
And that wasn't without good reason in some ways.
We know that from the New South Wales Birth Trauma Inquiry, for example, that there are many women who feel like when they give birth in a hospital, they are sometimes subject to interventions they did not want or that they did not fully consent to.
They can come out of that experience feeling quite traumatised despite placing their trust into medical care.
And some of the impacts can be quite long lasting.
These interventions can cause pain, they can cause ongoing symptoms.
So
It's not without any evidence that Stacey decided that she wanted to try and give birth with no intervention, but she went quite far the other way in that she didn't want a midwife.
She didn't want any medical tests throughout the pregnancy.
She didn't want any interventions at all, any interaction with the medical system throughout her pregnancy, but also through the birth itself.
And so that is how she then came across a birth keeper.
So despite that $6,000 payment, Emily Lau said that her role was very firmly one of a friend, that she attended that birth as a friend.
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