Shortly after her catastrophic freebirth, paramedics found an “agitated” Stacey Warnecke lying on the floor next to her birthing pool in a small, dark room, a court has heard.

At her first prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, Shana Westlake of Beacon, New York, remembers entering her OB-GYN's office full of anxiety. "They took my blood pressure, and it was ...