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home birth complication
Coverage of home birth complication in the Nexus archive.
- Wellness influencer died of ‘eminently treatable’ home birth complication that rarely kills in hospitals
A wellness influencer died from a postpartum hemorrhage during a home birth, a complication deemed 'eminently treatable' but rare in hospitals. Paramedics found they could not detect her blood pressure, and postpartum hemorrhage occurs in 1-5% of births.