Woman takes legal action in bid to have home birth
University lecturer Aja Teehan, who is 29 weeks’ pregnant, wants to have her second child at home in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, assisted by a midwife.
However, she claims a “blanket policy” by the HSE of refusing to cover home births for women who have previously had caesarean section births, means she cannot have her baby at home as a midwife will not get indemnity cover to attend on her.
