Concern about different policies for over-term women opting for homebirths and those attending hospital maternity units about when they should be induced has been expressed at an inquest into the death of a baby boy shortly after he was delivered in a homebirth three years ago.
Baby Rob Cashin, died in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin less than an hour after being born at his family home in Holywell Gardens, Swords, Co Dublin on August 27, 2020.
His mother, Paula Cashin told a sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court on Thursday that she had attended the hospital three days earlier for a check-up when she was nine days overdue after an uneventful pregnancy.
