16 h. ago Midwife saw 'most intense birth plan' before mum, 34, and baby died in home birth tragedy

New mum Jennifer Cahill died just four days after giving birth to her daughter Agnes, who died a matter of hours later, with a midwife noting the 'intense' home birth plan

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40 h. ago Mum and newborn daughter tragically die within hours of each other following home birth

Questions have been raised over why the home birth went ahead despite hospital staff describing the plan as “out of guidance” and “against advice”.

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40 h. ago Mum, 34, and baby died in home birth tragedy as heartbroken father pays tribute & says ‘we never heard the risks’

A MOTHER and her newborn baby died within hours of each other in a tragic home birth, an inquest has heard. Rob Cahill recounted details of his wife and baby's death after a home birth which has left him heartbroken. Jennifer Cahill, 34, never got to hold her "beautiful" baby Agnes after giving birth at...

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41 h. ago Mum, 34, and baby die after home birth tragedy as she never got to hold ‘beautiful’ child

Jennifer Cahill, 34, tragically died just hours after giving birth to her second child at home, an inquest has heard, with her baby daughter Agnes dying four days later

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1 week ago Annabel Croft, 59, becomes a grandmother for the first time as her daughter Amber, 31, gives birth to a baby boy

The tennis legend-turned TV presenter's eldest daughter, Amber, 31, has given birth to a baby boy with her financier husband, Hector Llewellyn.

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1 week ago MP’s newborn baby subjected to ‘vile’ racist abuse online just hours after birth: ‘Beyond depraved’

Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain said he was forced to delete the picture he shared online after a torrent of appalling comments were posted

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1 week ago Cheerleader's roommates heard chilling noises before finding dead baby in closet

Laken Snelling allegedly gave birth to a baby boy in the early hours of August 27 and after falling asleep the 21-year-old is said to have wrapped the infant up 'like a burrito' before placing him in her closet

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2 w. ago The Yorkshire Vet star performs emergency surgery to save calf hours after birth

The Yorkshire Vet star Peter Wright was left with no choice but to act quickly as he was faced with a critical situation in the latest episode of the Channel 5 show.

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2 w. ago Former Wales rugby boss Warren Gatland's heartbreak over daughter's tragic death

The former Wales head coach has opened up on the tragic death of his baby daughter Shauna, who passed away at just four months old after being born with spina bifida

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2 w. ago Newborn baby holds contraceptive coil that stopped mum from getting pregnant

An IUD (intrauterine device), also known as a copper coil, is 99% effective in preventing pregnancy, but one baby beat the odds and was pictured victoriously holding the tiny device shortly after being born

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2 w. ago Mum and newborn baby left trapped on the M4 for seven hours after crash

Police have told drivers to avoid the area

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3 w. ago How a British mum used her maternity leave to backpack around the world with her newborn

Esther Draycott, 31, from Nottingham, revealed she was called 'crazy' for using her six-month maternity leave to backpack across the world with her newborn son, teenage daughter and husband, Daniel.

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3 w. ago Abbey Clancy admits she wanted to 'die' after making an embarrassing blunder when she was nine months pregnant

The model explained she was heavily pregnant  with her newborn when she had an awkward interaction with another mum in a chemist on her The Therapy Crouch podcast.

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3 w. ago Windsor Castle's bust of Queen Victoria's tragic husband Prince Albert was made by their grieving eldest daughter after his untimely death, experts discover 160 years later

The bust depicting Prince Albert - the tragic consort of Queen Victoria - was long believed to have been the work of a celebrated expert sculptor.

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3 w. ago Dad and baby killed in horror crash with mum and son fighting for their lives

A dad and his daughter sadly died in a tragic car crash just days after the family moved from Wales to Poland - the mum and son are fighting for their lives in hospital

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3 w. ago ‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiencesWhen Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex in 1927, Jean Cocteau wrote a French libretto based on Sophocles’s tragedy, which was then translated into Latin, a language Stravinsky called “not dead but turned to stone”. It was to be mere syllables to sing notes to, immune to “vulgarisation” as he put it – a way to tell a tragedy without too much pesky drama getting in the way.In choreographer Wayne McGregor’s production of Oedipus Rex, paired with a new ballet based on the myth of Antigone and premiered by the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, there is drama, but it is of the stark, unsentimental kind. The double bill is entitled Jocasta’s Line, as Jocasta, queen of Thebes, sees her husband/son (spoiler, they’re the same person!) and daughter meet tragic ends. It is visually striking and exciting in scale – the first half austere, the se...

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4 w. ago Mark Gordon’s sister lifts the lid on convicted rapist's darkest secrets as he's jailed

Mark Gordon, a convicted rapist, embarked on a toxic "Romeo and Juliet" romance with Constance Marten which culminated in the tragic death of their baby daughter

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