A US champion of ‘freebirthing’ always claimed there had been no maternal deaths linked to the movement. Is Stacey Warnecke the first?

Guardian investigation exposes full links between a US business linked to baby deaths around the world and Australian ‘birth keeper’ Emily Lal, the central witness at the inquest into the death of a Melbourne wellness influencer How a Melbourne woman’s death is shining light on the dangers of non-medical births – Full Story podcast Find more from The birth keepers series here During her time at the helm of a multimillion-dollar organisation linked to baby deaths around the world, Emilee Sa...

By Sirin Kale and Melissa Davey