Inspirational AnnaLouiseKent tells OK! about her journey delivering babies in war-torn countries
Here, the 41-year-old - who lives in Weymouth with daughter Aisha, six - opens up to OK! about helping others and suffering her own tragedy.
I hadn’t been able to help her, but through nursing I was determined to help other vulnerable women and make a difference. I threw myself into a midwifery course and agreed to travel again. All I knew was that I needed to carry on helping these women. Baby loss was desperately familiar in this camp, due to extreme hardship and limited healthcare access. Performing an internal exam, I was shocked to feel the baby’s pulse rather than head at the dilating cervix.I held my hand inside her, keeping pressure off the prolapsed cord so the baby’s oxygen supply would not be cut off. She needed a Caesarean section – and fast.
Be the first to meet the latest showbiz babies, see the most sought after wedding pictures of the year, or take a guided tour around your favourite star's lavish multi-million pound home - all for free!The second message was to set my life on a completely new course. I’d been given permission by head office to build a birth unit from scratch and train midwives to run it. Finally, the Rohingya population I worked with would get full access to maternity care.
Aged 31, I was sofa-surfing at friends’ homes, skint and single. My love life had taken a back seat for so many years. I suffered irregular periods, my hair fell out and I drank too much. But rather than break me, my time as a front-line midwife ultimately made me stronger and more resilient.
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