Alex Stewart, 28, has dedicated her career to being a children's nurse and was told in January she may have as little as six months to live after cervical cancer spread aggressively through her body. Alex said during the birth of her son Teddy in June, a midwife discovered a lump and a biopsy following her eight-week postpartum check-up confirmed Alex had cervical cancer. Family - (L to R) Elsie, Alex, Teddy and Joe (Image: Submitted)Following a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy which ended in December, Alex hoped for a recovery. On New Year’s Eve, an emergency scan was performed and then on January 2, doctors confirmed the cancer had spread to her stomach and lymph nodes. Friend Jessie Mullins said Alex is a woman who has always put others first, saying: “Alex has devoted her life to looking after families.