Baby died after NHS trust failed to warn mother of ‘unsafe’ home birth, coroner finds

Poppy Hope Lomas with her parents. Her mother said they had ‘trusted the professionals who were guiding us’. Photograph: Family handout/PA

A mother who lost her baby a week after an “unsafe” home birth that went against medical advice was failed by the NHS, an inquest has found.

Poppy Hope Lomas was seven days old when she died at University College hospital in London on 26 October 2022 after complications during a home birth that, according to her mother, was encouraged by midwives at Barnet hospital.