Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

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She gained her First Degree in Midwifery in 2010 and has worked as a midwife across the world, including in South Sudan, Haiti, Bangladesh and the UK. Anna’s writing has the power to shock without hyperbole (although there might be some hyperbole at her most blissful moments! Talking about the why she decided to document her experiences, Anna said that sometimes her role as a healthcare professional is to see the atrocities and speak out against them. Writing has become a form of therapy for Anna who, after retiring from the frontline work, sought help to deal with her PTSD and emotional trauma which she said has given her freedom and a real sense of power. At the same time, it made me see how even though I live in one of richest countries in the world, even here there is still so much more that could be done to help women during pregnancy and birth.

At age thirty she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. 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.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.

Another down for Anna is the fact that she, and the other aid workers live in constant fear of being kidnapped, even to the point of carrying cash to pay off potential kidnappers.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. I knew ‘Frontline Midwife’ would be a terrific book ever since Anna, who I once met in Bangladesh, told me she was writing it. We don't generally hear so much about aid work so this was a great read, and very squemish in places, medical practices that are completely unheard of in England with our medical facilities. I could not stop reading the extraordinary horrifying and yet beautiful story of Anna Kent’s experience in supporting women in war torn southern Sudan and in the refugee camps in Bangladesh. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

However, Kent manages to avoid this and treats all the families she describes with dignity and respect. 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. An absolute must read - a story and a life that will live in your heart long after the final chapter! Frontline Midwife is an account of Anna Kent's time as a midwife in South Sudan, Bangladesh and the UK. I will forever hold in my heart the stories that she has told from the depths of Sudan to the Bangladesh Shacks.

I have read books about controlling and coercive behaviour and books about guilt transference or guilt by proxy or whatever phrase you want to use.

This is at once an astonishing story of the realities of frontline humanitarian work and a powerful reminder of the critical, life-giving work of midwives at home and around the world. Its one of those books you feel immensley grateful was written - big shout outs to her and her support system for bringing this book to press.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. Should they choose to have children, childbirth should be one of the most liberating and empowering moments of a woman's life.