I gave birth four days before Stacey’s death. This tragedy could have happened to any of us

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I gave birth four days before Stacey’s death. This tragedy could have happened to any of us

Kylie Moore-Gilbert Political scientist and writer November 9, 2025 — 5.00am

I gave birth to my second child, a boy, just four days before Stacey Warnecke’s shocking death in childbirth. Stacey’s baby, also a boy, survived.

It was probably the hormones, or the proximity in birth of our two sons, who arrived under such different circumstances, but I broke down in tears when I heard the news. By all accounts Stacey was a healthy, vibrant young woman – newly married, excited about motherhood, her whole life should have been ahead of her. The tragedy of Stacey’s death wasn’t just that it was likely wholly preventable, but that it could have happened to any number o