Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

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Working in ravaged, war torn areas of the World like South Sudan, Haiti, and Bangladesh, Anna is one very brave and special human. Her accounts are not for the faint hearted, and there are very graphic descriptions of what happens when things go wrong. 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.

For me it resulted in a very important but hard to swallow book, and some serious reflection on my career goals. So many amazing and heart wrenching experiences that affected her on a personal level, I just wanted to give her a hug. This book is an amazing read, about Anna, the perhaps more idealistic person she was at the very beginning of her career as an aid worker, how Anna dealt with things in her private life too. Frontline Midwife is Kent's compassionate testament to the critical work of healthcare professionals around the world.Thank you for being so being so brave and inspirational, your honesty and authenticity and sharing your highs + lows and make it just a little easier for everyday folk to feel that it’s okay to not be okay.

At 26 years old, not yet a fully trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. 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. I don't think I am spoiling anything by saying I was relieved to find her in a better place at the end of the book. Kent exhibits a powerful sense of insight and self-reflection throughout the book, which more than once spills over into undue self-criticism. 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.However, after all the danger Anna sees and works in, it is a surfing accident that almost kills her. 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.

I certainly cried reading most of it and really felt like I could connect with the people in the book.

As a student midwife aspiring to partake in humanitarian aid further down in my career, this book was life changing! 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. Knowing that you may die in childbirth, is part of the experience for women in so many parts of the world, and Although many of these deaths are unavoidable simple things, like providing a clean way to cut the umbilical cord to prevent neonatal tetanus make a huge difference. During her time as a nurse she witnessed one woman who had walked for nine days to reach the centre where Anna was based – having no access to a midwife closer to where she lived – and Anna said she was at a dangerous point in labour.