Battered body creates life: Miracle of birth for brave Allana
Published: November 7, 2005
Tasmanian pilot and author Allana Corbin is expecting twins — 15 years after being told she would never walk again.
Allana and husband Roger have revealed that their twin baby girls are due mid-next month.
Mrs Corbin was severely injured in a plane crash in 1990 but learned to walk again — and to become a much-sought-after motivational speaker.
She also overcame her fear of flying to become a helicopter pilot.
In 1997 she obtained her commercial helicopter pilot’s licence and became the first woman to circumnavigate mainland Australia solo in a helicopter. A book about her exploits, The Best I Can Be, was published in 1998.
She and her husband — also a pilot — run Tasmanian helicopter company Rotor-Lift, which operates the police rescue helicopter.
After all her hardship, Mrs Corbin, 38, said of being pregnant: “I just can’t believe this battered body is actually creating life, it’s quite extraordinary.
“It’s a nice thing to happen after all that tragedy.”
Her spine was severely injured in the accident but she sustained no injuries to her internal organs.
While conceiving was not going to be a problem, she was told her spinal injuries might prevent her from carrying a baby to full term.
“I’ve got a lot of hardware in my back and some of my spine is fused, so I have no give in my spine,” she said.
“I don’t have an option of having a natural birth, it has to be caesarean, and I don’t have the option of being awake for it either. So I get to go to sleep and wake up a mum.”
She was far from disappointed at the prospect of not being able to have the baby naturally.
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