A hospital used its entire supply of a key blood type in a desperate bid to save wellness influencer Stacey Warnecke after she had catastrophic bleeding following a freebirth.

The 30-year-old is believed to have died from complications of a postpartum haemorrhage after giving birth to her son, Axel, in a water bath at her home in Melbourne on 29 September, a coroner’s court heard yesterday.

The freebirth was attended by Emily Lal, a doula since banned from providing health services by the Victorian Health Complaints Commissioner.

The court heard that when police visited the home to photograph the scene, they were told Ms Lal had extensively cleaned the site of the birth.