first began walking upright. joyous birth incident on 27 march 2009, janet fraser, a leading advocate of uc and national convener of the highly popular joyous birth website, lost her child during a birth assisted only by her partner and a female friend. in an interview five days earlier with the sunday age, fraser, in the early stages of labor at the time, stated that she had at no point during her pregnancy consulted with a health professional, and that she intended to deliver the baby at her home without an attending midwife. the cause of death was reported to be cardiac arrest. a coronial inquest concluded in 2012 that roisin fraser's death was the result of a complication resulting from cord entanglement, was almost certainly preventable if the birth had proceeded in a maternity unit, and was probably preventable if the birth at home had been attended by a registered midwife. it also found that fraser's claim of "birthrape" during her first birth followed a planned homebirth attended by a midwife, where fraser herself requested transfer to a hospital for epidural anaesthesia, and then subsequently requested a caesarean birth without medical indications and against medical advice.