Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

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well written and compelling in a way that I felt like we were sat down with a cup of tea and she was telling me everything in the book personally to me. At twenty-six years old, Anna Kent helped a woman deliver her baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch. It would be easy to fall into the trap of comparing the dangerous birthing experiences of women in places such as south Sudan and Bangladesh with the relative comfort of women accessing UK maternity provision, and to portray UK mothers as ungrateful or overprivileged.

So many amazing and heart wrenching experiences that affected her on a personal level, I just wanted to give her a hug. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This is not only a book about the work Anna has done but a look at how that work impacted her life, relationships and subsequent career.This lends the book particular significance in the current climate and is sure to strike a chord with readers. In Frontline Midwife, Kent shares her extraordinary experiences as a nurse, midwife and mother, illuminating the lives of women that are irreparably affected by compromised access to healthcare. A sensationally powerful account of humanitarian aid work, the amazing people working in the field and attending patients, and the life-giving work of the medical profession both at home and overseas. This book heads you so close to life and death with the thread of hope that numerous paragraphs will make you cry.

Once a trained midwife, Anna went out to Haiti in 2010 and also Bangladesh, where she was responsible for women's health in a refugee camp, caring for those who had become stateless – not under a country's protection. In more recent yearsm Anna has worked alongside NHS staff during the pandemic, which she said posed a particular challenge for her as a mother as she did not want her duties as nurse to harm her three-year-old daughter Aisha. A quite matter of fact comment from the other aid worker, James, when he informs Anna, she will be solely dealing with the midwifery aspects of their job. Anna Kent not only lays bare her own struggles and losses but those of the pregnant women and babies she cares for in some of the world's most deprived places.

It also put how those who lose babies, be they full term or not have been treat in the UK, and the improvements that still need making and put into action. Anna goes from being confident in what she has to do, to being in a panic she will never cope and wanting to head right back home, to ultimately not wanting to go home. All this changes, they end up being more like strangers than the partners they were before she went to the South Sudan. Once she arrives at the area she will work, she is certainly shocked by the conditions she will have to work in, as well as those she is going to be working with.

Kent shares her extraordinary experiences as a nurse, midwife and mother, illuminating the lives of women that are irreparably affected by compromised access to healthcare.

Read it and complain to your MP, MS and MSP to increase the humanitarian aid budget, particularly for the hidden crises that are not reported. Obviously, a lot of the stories are very hard-hitting emotionally to read, so this book obviously comes with a bit of a trigger warning. In her book Frontline Midwife, Anna shares her extraordinary experiences as a nurse, midwife and mother, illuminating the lives of women that are irreparably affected by compromised access to healthcare. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Worrying about those she has helped to train and wondering how those she has treat will fair in the poor conditions they exist in.It’s empowering and refreshing to read an account about birth written by a woman, a mother and a midwife.