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“She complained of more blood loss,” Ellyard said.
The next time she was asked if she wanted an ambulance, Warnecke agreed.
The first paramedic, who arrived at the house at 4.26am, found Warnecke lying on the floor next to the birthing pool in a small, dark room.
“Stacey was agitated. She appeared yellow and short of breath,” Ellyard told the directions hearing.
Warnecke was transported by ambulance to Frankston Hospital at 5am, accompanied by her husband, Lal and their newborn son.
A total of 24 clinicians mounted an extensive effort to save Warnecke over the next six hours, inserting a battery balloon to stem the bleeding, performing an emergency hysterectomy and a procedure to remove a large amount of fluid that had gathered in a sac around her heart.
Nutrition influencer Stacey Warnecke died in September.Credit: Instagram
She was intubated, given CPR and blood transfusions, then suffered several cardiac arrests in the intensive care unit before passing away.
“As a measure of how severe her presentation was, and how hard clinicians worked to save her, the hospital’s supply of her blood type was completely exhausted,” said Ellyard.
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“It must have been a profoundly complicated and distressing experience for all those trying to care for her.”
In October, Victoria’s Health Complaints Commission issued a public warning about Lal and said she was under investigation after allegations were made that Lal “is facilitating and/or participating in homebirths which may put both mothers and babies at risk”.
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