Hand up showing off a beautiful diamond engagement ring, Jennifer Cahill could not look happier.
Sat on a clifftop, the photo of contentment was taken in September 2016 just moments after the love of her life Rob had proposed to her.
She had met five years earlier during Mrs Cahill's final year at the University of Manchester where she was finishing up her degree in French and Italian.
Over the course of the next few years, as their relationship got serious, Rob and Jennifer travelled the world, including a bucket list backpacking trip to Japan.
Dozens of photos on social media show them exploring the bamboo forest in Kyoto, posing under the famous Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine and smiling under pretty cherry blossom trees.
Then, after watching their closest friends getting married in the following years, it was soon enough their turn to tie the knot.
Almost two years after their engagement, they were married in front of their friends and family at a countryside wedding in Mrs Cahill's hometown of Malvern.
The summer wedding took place on a drizzly day in July just a short drive away from Mrs Cahill's old school, Malvern College.
Mrs Cahill died during childbirth together with her daughter, Agnes, after a traumatic home birth.
Jennifer suffered a postpartum hemorrhage after her first child was born in 2021.
Three years later they welcomed their first child but after giving birth to their son, Mrs Cahill suffered a postpartum hemorrhage causing her to lose more than 800ml of blood.
The new mother had to have a blood transfusion, while the baby also became unwell with sepsis as Mrs Cahill was a carrier of Strep B.
She had to spend a week in hospital with her newborn - which Mrs Cahill would later recall that the 'traumatic' experience was one of the 'toughest weeks of her life'.
And so, when the young family found out they would be expecting another baby three years later, Mrs Cahill started to explore the possibility of a home birth.
She soon joined a Facebook group called Home Birth Support UK, which was created to support expecting mothers hoping to have a home birth.
The online community, which has almost 18,000 active members, is run by a private doula and self-professed birthing activist Samantha Gadsden.
It offers birthing tips, deals on birthing pools and asks pregnant women to donate to Ms Gadsden's personal website. Midwives are charged £50 to join and mums-to-be can also pay up to £60 for personalised advice.
The group boasts: 'We are not your average group...we question the medical norms...please respect this.'
Jennifer and husband Rob were married in front of their friends and family at a countryside wedding in Mrs Cahill's hometown of Malvern.
The summer wedding took place on a drizzly day in July just a short drive away from her old school.
Jennifer and Rob pictured with their first son who was born in 2021.
And so when Mrs Cahill joined the group, she—as many dozens of women do each day—reached out to the community for their advice, detailing the issues she had with her first birth in hospital.
Writing in the group, the mother-to-be said: 'I have very recently started to think about a home birth with our next baby after [a] discussion with my partner who seems to be on board.'
'I am really excited about the possibility of a home birth after my last birth experience so I just want to arm myself with as much information as possible,' she added.
Tragically Mrs Cahill decided to go ahead with her home birth plan, despite medical advice who deemed her 'high risk' following her hemorrhage, after claiming she had felt 'unsupported' during her son's birth.
As a result, she made a strict birth plan which made clear she wanted a completely 'physiological' birth for her daughter, who would later be called Agnes Lily.
The plan said that she wanted no drugs and no intimate examinations. Additionally, she wanted labour to take place in a room illuminated only by tea lights and for the midwives to keep their voices down.
Midwives arrived at Mrs Cahill's home in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of June 3 2024 to begin the home birth.
But by 5am, the 34-year-old had been in labour for eight hours and her daughter was no closer to arriving.
Exhausted, and struggling with the birth, Mrs Cahill shouted in frustration: 'I really want to do this. I am a warrior! Why will my body not let me?'
Finally, baby Agnes was delivered around 6.50am but tragically both the health of the baby and mother started to rapidly decline.
Baby Agnes had been born not breathing with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, with a terrified midwife forced to carry out resuscitation on the tiny newborn who was then rushed to hospital.
Mrs Cahill was later taken into the hospital but died the following day after suffering a repeat of the severe haemorrhaging she had experienced with her son in 2021.
This time, however, doctors were unable to save her in time. Mrs Cahill suffered a cardiac arrest in the ambulance and died of multiple organ failure at North Manchester General Hospital.
Sadly, just three-days later, Mrs Cahill's husband had to say goodbye to his daughter as well.
The baby had been kept alive on a ventilator so Mr Cahill and other relatives were able to spend time with her before she also died.
Earlier this week an inquest was opened into the deaths of Mrs Cahill and baby Agnes at Rochdale Coroners Court.
Speaking on the first day, Mr Cahill said: '[Agnes] was able to meet my family. I held her and told her stories about her mother, who never got to hold her or say goodbye. Nothing can be done now to reverse these awful facts.'
The grieving husband, who was surrounded by loved ones at the inquest, said that his wife had not felt supported by midwives throughout her pregnancy.
'There was no one midwife assigned to Jen,' he said. 'There seemed to be lots of midwives coming and going.'
'Jen did not feel she had been fully supported. It was a tricky time because of Covid and there were lots of restrictions.'
The two midwives who were assigned to Mrs Cahill on the night of the birth this week also gave their own tearful accounts of the awful night.
Julie Turner, and her colleague, Andrea Walmsley, had already worked a 12-hour shift that day, but were on call and arrived at the Cahills' home.
They were shocked by the birthing plan, particularly that the room was lit only by tealights and that they had to keep their voices to a whisper.
Ms Walmsley later described scenes of 'absolute chaos' as her colleague tried to resuscitate Agnes.
A police investigation looking into the home birth support group run by Ms Gadsden was also started this week but officers have since closed the case.
This week Ms Gadsden locked down her Instagram account and paused any posts into her home birth group.
Yet just days ago she was still pushing her aggressive anti-hospital, pro-home birth agenda.
In posts seen by the Daily Mail, she wrote: 'You do not need permission from a midwife to birth in your own home.'
Meanwhile in older posts she professed: 'Hospital birth is not safe. Home birth is not dangerous'.
She added: 'Sending hospital birth-traumatised women back to hospital is like going back to a restaurant after food poisoning for a second dose.'
Ms Gadsden, who has described NHS maternity services as 'broken,' slammed the door and refused to comment when contacted by the Daily Mail at her home in a village close to Caerphilly, south Wales,yesterday.
One midwife who specialises in home births and who joined Ms Gadsden's Facebook page told the Daily Mail she believed Ms Gadsden had kicked her off the forum because she'd pulled Ms Gadsden up for spreading misinformation.
Mr Cahill said Jennifer never got to hold her baby or say goodbye when she died in hospital.
A police investigation looking into the home birth support group run by Ms Gadsden was also started this week but officers have since closed the case.
The midwife described Ms Gadsden as 'self‑righteous' and more bothered with 'appearing knowledgeable' than actually giving women balanced information.
The inquest will continue into next week, with the coroner expected to come to a conclusion by Friday.
Yet the pain for Mr Cahill, his little boy and all of their loved ones, will continue to endure.