A second midwife has been charged with manslaughter after a newborn baby died during a botched home birth in NSW’s Hunter region.
Jordan Michaela Holland, 28, was arrested and charged with manslaughter at Newcastle Police Station about 7am on Friday.
Police allege Holland was a privately practising midwife when she attended a home in Wallsend to assist a woman with a home birth on October 2, 2024.
The Branxton woman appeared in bail court on Friday via a video link from the cells at Newcastle Police Station and was granted bail under conditions.
The police prosecutor did not oppose Holland’s release on the basis that she had never come before the court before, she had been subject to investigation since 2024, and she handed herself into police as pre-arranged.
It comes almost eight months after Italian-born midwife Oyebola Coxon was hit with the same charge over the home birth.
Police allege Coxon, 36, did not act upon signs of complications during the birth and requests by the mother to go to hospital, instead leaving her in labour for two days.
On October 4, the woman attended John Hunter Hospital where the baby was delivered by emergency caesarean. Six days later, the baby boy died in hospital.
It comes almost eight months after Italian-born midwife Oyebola Coxon (pictured with her children) was hit with the same charge over the home birth in Wallsend in October 2024
Coxon, an Italian-born influencer midwife, has long posted on Instagram under the profile Mamma Informata to promote ‘positive births’
Following a police investigation into the death of the newborn, Coxon was arrested on August 14, 2025.
She was charged with manslaughter and grievous bodily harm and remains before the courts, having been granted conditional bail.
The conditions include that she must not act, practice or educate any person relating to any birth or pregnancy and surrender her Italian and Australian passports.
The Italian-born influencer midwife, has long posted on Instagram under the profile Mamma Informata to promote ‘positive births’.
Coxon’s trial is due to begin at Newcastle Crown Court on October 15.
More to come.
