The first 39 weeks and two days of Anyssa Zancanella’s pregnancy were “so beautiful,” she remembers.

Zancanella sang to her unborn child every night, she said in an interview, and rejoiced in milestones like hearing her daughter’s heartbeat, seeing her in ultrasound images and decorating her nursery. As her due date approached in October 2019, the family’s attorneys later wrote, Zancanella’s first pregnancy had been ”normal and routine."

Then her water broke while she was on a short vacation to Salt Lake County — hours away from her home and obstetrician in Wyoming. Relatives who had traveled with her searched online for the nearest hospital and hurried her to Jordan Valley Medical Center in West Valley City, then owned by Steward Health Care.

There, inexperienced nurses failed to react

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