Grace visited doctors with health concerns eight times in her last week of pregnancy. On the ninth visit, she was told her baby was stillborn

Grace presented to a local hospital, her GP and a larger hospital nine times in her 39th week of pregnancy before being told her baby Koa had died of complications from preeclampsia in utero. She sued NSW Health over the incident. Photograph: Jamila Filippone/The Guardian

Grace* was just over 40 weeks pregnant when she arrived at a public hospital in regional New South Wales. The Gamilaraay woman had been excited for the pending birth of her first child, a son called Koa.

Her husband’s job meant he was often away for long stretches of time, but on this day, by chance, he was by her side attending her ultrasound for the first time.