Shannon PitmanOpen Justice multimedia journalist, Whangārei·NZ Herald·31 Aug, 2026 04:39 AM5 mins to read‌The baby boy died at home several days after an emergency caesarean at North Shore Hospital. Photo / DepositPhotosAs a woman struggled through the night with a pregnancy induction, pain that hospital staff believed was part of normal labour was in fact far more sinister.

By the time anyone realised what her symptoms meant, she was bleeding into her abdomen, her uterus had torn apart and her baby