A Midwife's Own Survival Story | Life of a Midwife Ep. 6
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Life of a Midwife, Giovanna shares the extraordinary journey of one midwife who turned her own hardships into a lifelong calling.
From an orphaned child to an abandoned mother of triplets, to becoming the midwife she once desperately needed herself.
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| 0:00.0 | A midwife doesn't just catch babies. They catch people in the moments when they need it the most. |
| 0:18.4 | The women in this series have built their lives around being that person. |
| 0:23.0 | But in today's episode, we hear from a midwife who knows just what it means to need that hand too. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Giovanna Fletcher, and from Happy Mum, this is life of a midwife. |
| 0:37.3 | Today is a little different. We're not stepping into a midwife. Today is a little different. |
| 0:40.0 | We're not stepping into a midwife's working life, but into the journey leading up to it. |
| 0:46.3 | Because for Fatma 2, becoming a midwife wasn't a career decision. |
| 0:50.6 | It was a reflection of everything she'd already lived through and everything she'd already become. |
| 0:57.0 | Her story begins in a small African village. |
| 1:04.2 | Myself and my husband, we knew each other from primary school. |
| 1:09.0 | By 10-11, we all had to go to boarding school in another town. |
| 1:13.9 | Our little town didn't have secondary school. |
| 1:16.8 | So I went to this big city and he had to go to the next city. |
| 1:21.4 | So we didn't see each other. |
| 1:23.2 | Only holidays will meet up. |
| 1:25.5 | But I love this man so much, I'm telling you. |
| 1:28.3 | Every holiday will meet up. |
| 1:31.3 | In the evening, with a village, we didn't have any light, any water. |
| 1:34.3 | So in the evening, there'll be the moon shining the light, |
| 1:38.3 | and then we'll go to the market stalls and sit there, |
| 1:41.3 | and everybody will have their girlfriend and boyfriend will sit and talk talk and my brother will promptly go and tell my elder sister, |
| 1:48.0 | yes, I saw her sitting with him, sitting in the house. |
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