Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

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I recently started reading this book and couldn’t put it down (well apart from some shifts and uni work annoyingly getting in the way).

This book can be read many times if there is something to see or peep beyond the wall of society and life. An honor and privilege to read, Anna Kent is a remarkable woman, and the courage of not just her work, but also the courage to put her story to paper for us to bear witness too, I'm simply in awe. 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. Later, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 stateless Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. At the time Anna thinks a lot of the restrictions put on aid workers are strange and even some maybe a tad unnecessary.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. At twenty-six years old, Anna Kent helped a woman deliver her baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch. This time she has aspirations to set up a birth centre, but she will need the co-operation of the traditions birth assistants to even get the women to enter the birth centre, let alone use it. Talking about her own personal life and how she coped with what she experienced and saw can’t have been easy but made me empathise with her and others who have been on a similar journey. Whilst she has had a remarkable career, she also includes personal stories of her own struggles in relationships and pregnancy.

As a former pupil at The Grove School in Market Drayton, Anna noted how immersing herself in nature, particularly in Shropshire, has helped her to practice mindfulness and remaining calm in stressful situations throughout her work. The affects that working in such a hostile environment with life-and-death decisions constantly left up to her clearly caused a huge amount of mental distress. 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. At age thirty she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Her accounts are not for the faint hearted, and there are very graphic descriptions of what happens when things go wrong.The 41-year-old mother-of-one who now lives in Weymouth, Dorset, said: "Everyone deserves access to healthcare no matter where they are. At one of her jobs despite hating to do so all the aid workers have to leave the facility they work in at a certain time as their safety cannot be guaranteed after that time.