A woman, whose newborn baby died following a homebirth, has claimed that she might have been prevented from having a home delivery if a maternity hospital had passed on details to a midwife of previous difficulties she had experienced during the birth of her first child.
Paula Cashin told an inquest at Dublin District Coroner’s Court that she wondered “how events would have unfolded” if such information had been available.
Her son, Rob, died in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin just hours after he had been delivered at Ms Cashin’s home in Holywell Gardens, Swords, Co Dublin on August 27, 2020.
