Jennifer Cahill and her daughter, Agnes Lily, died in birth described by coroner as ‘a Victorian-age nightmare’
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hen Jennifer Cahill went into labour with her second child at home in summer last year, she thought that the delivery, assisted by two midwives and with her husband by her side, would be a relatively simple one. Within 24 hours, however, she was dead, and her newborn daughter was fighting for her life after experiencing “horrors that should be consigned to a Victorian-age nightmare”.
Cahill, 34, who was an international export manager, died after her baby, Agnes Lily, was born in the early hours of 3 June last year at her home in Prestwich, north of Manchester.
She suffered a haemorrhage and lost five pints of blood, or almost half the blood in her body, owing to a tear between her vagina and anus. She was taken to hospital, but went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance, and died from multiple organ failure the next day.
