After suffering five miscarriages, Claire Brett spent every day of her next pregnancy gripped by fear and panic.

Ms Brett, who repeatedly miscarried after the birth of her first son Rosco in 2018, wondered if she would ever get to meet her second baby and steeled herself for another loss.

"Every single day, I'd wake up wondering, 'Is today the day?'," she told AAP.

"Many nights I'd go to bed and just cry because I had no control over my emotions."

When she went into labour at a rural NSW hospital amid COVID-19 lockdowns in 2021, she asked a group of midwives to let her husband into the ward because she was feeling worried.

"They said, 'Why are you anxious?' and I just burst into tears and explained I'd had multiple miscarriages," she recalled.

"Once they knew, the midwives were so lo

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