Raylee Campbell has been there to help after all of her grandchildren were born.
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With her daughter Erika about to give birth to her first child, a "miracle baby" she had been trying to conceive for years, Mrs Campbell was preparing to lend a hand again.
But the Canberra grandmother fears she will not be able to be there for her daughter when she needs her the most.
Erika lives in Wodonga, the Victorian border town where dozens of Canberrans were stranded for almost a week when the NSW government abruptly cancelled their permits amid a crackdown on passages.
While those Canberrans now have until Sunday to return home, future travellers have been told they will have to fly home from Melbourne as they cannot enter NSW by road.
It means Mrs Campbell could be stranded if she takes her caravan down and helps her daughter out.
She is now reconsidering the entire journey.
"When we get there to help her, we don't know when we'll get out again," Mrs Campbell said.
The situation is even more difficult, as Erika may need to have a caesarean section.
A NSW Health spokeswoman said Mrs Campbell could apply for a permit to return to NSW on compassionate grounds.
However, there are no guarantees it will be granted.
"Applications for permits on compassionate grounds are taken very seriously, and are only granted in very limited circumstances due to the high risk of COVID-19 transmission," the spokesperson said.
It's one of a number of heartbreaking situations which have emerged, as states lock down their borders to prevent the coronavirus.
Infectious disease experts were barred from going to work in NSW, while critical agriculture workers have also been blocked from entering the state.
While farmers may soon be able to get a special permit to move between NSW and Victoria, Agriculture Minister David Littleproud urged state premiers to consider the real human toll of their decisions.
"In far western Victoria, there's a three-and-a-half-year-old girl who's got cancer. She's actually wearing a colostomy bag and has lost part of her spine and was getting chemotherapy in Adelaide," Mr Littleproud told ABC radio.
"Because of the closure, she's unable to get chemo in Adelaide and has now been pushed away. A couple hour trip will now be pushed in and her family are going to have to take her hundreds upon hundreds of kilometres away to get treatment."
Acting chief medical officer Paul Kelly said the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee was assessing the issues with the border closures.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had spoken with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian about the issues on the border on Friday.
"These are matters for the states but where I can assist and the federal government can assist trying to resolve some of those issues in some of those areas, then we will seek to do that," Mr Morrison said.
Mr Morrison said it was important a "practical solution" was reached.
"When you look at what is occurring in Victoria, then obviously the outbreak there is far more severe than in any other part of the country and I'm sure those living in border towns would be completely agree that if someone had gone from one of those towns and gone to Melbourne and come back, well, they shouldn't be going into NSW," Mr Morrison said.
"In those areas which are largely COVID-free, the risk is less, but if measures can be taken together with the Victorian and NSW governments to give people greater confidence in accessing work and medical services, then I would hope common-sense would prevail ... whether it be the South Australian border or the Queensland border."
Mr Morrison said premiers should also be more transparent about why they were closing borders.
"I think it's quite reasonable that people would expect that there is some certainty or at least some process about how premiers are making decisions about when they close and open borders," he said.
However states and territories had been quite resistant to the idea of setting national requirements for shutting the borders.
"States and territories, I can assure you, have been very adamant about their sovereignty when it comes to who sets their border," Mr Morrison said.
Mrs Campbell hopes she can get some certainty soon.
"She's going to be a beautiful little granddaughter, we want to be there to help her out but we just don't know what's going to happen," Mrs Campbell said.