My Auntie lived in the UK and in those days if you had already had a child and there were no issues and your pregnancy was considered low risk then you were urged to have your baby at home. She had her baby at home but once bub was born there were issues. because of the delay in getting medical treatment he suffered brain damage. He became deaf, has only a small amount of vision and has brain damage. If he had been born in a hospital and received medical treatment straight away he would be ok today. We all feel its best to have our babies in a hospital and once bub is born if everything is ok then you can come home.

Isn’t it basic common sense that your babies have more chance of surviving birth if it happens at a hospital? I’m not sure I agree with thus woman being charged, unless there is obvious negligence and lack of care. Parents should realise the risks when they choose home births, why punish the midwife for thus?

I personally prefer hospitals to get the best care possible and if my babies need extra care it’s all there when they are born.

You would think you would want to move out by the age of 30?

I don’t think she actually would have caused the deaths but she should have known which clients should have had hospital births and which were safe as home birth.

In all honesty it’s probably not really the midwife’s fault. so many things can go wrong in birth and without the proper facilities of a hospital? Well, I think the parents need to take some responsibility for this.

I’m not in favour of home births for me personally. I want to have access to everything that is needed in case anything goes wrong. I would assume that midwives are fully legitimised to perform home births. There is no winner in this case. There is no satisfactory outcome when a child is not born alive. There is no good outcome for the family and their trauma. Hopefully the justice system gets it right in their outcome.

All midwives should be thoroughly capable or they should not be in the profession. Feel sure the judge acted properly in this case, but my heart goes out to those who hired this person who was not sufficiently trained to deal with home births.

I feel very sorry for the parents and families involved. We put so much trust in health professionals whether it’s home or hospital births. It is tragic when things go wrong due to human error.

There’s also responsibility on the parents that choose home birthing options you don’t know what can wrong during the birth this is why the hospital should be the first place people should pick