As the former President of the United States of America, Barack Obama has endured his fair share of emotional times, but nothing could have prepared him for how he would feel when his daughter Sasha was delivered a heartwrenching health diagnosis as a baby.

The politician and his wife, Michelle, are proud parents to Malia, 25, and Sasha, 22, who are now grown up, happy and healthy.

However, when Sasha was only three months old, Barack and Michelle’s world began to unravel as she was diagnosed with meningitis.

While on the campaign trail in 2012, Barack opened up about the diagnosis and said: “People ask me what was the hardest time in my life — they ask, well what about during the debt ceiling debate and this and that and the other thing.

“Sasha got meningitis when she was three months old. I still remember going to the hospital together and they had to give her a spinal tap.”

The father-of-two added: “The doctors did a terrific job, but, frankly, it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap, and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears.”

Sasha Obama, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama 2014© Getty Images

Sasha got meningitis when she was three months old
The agonizing time will be forever etched on Michelle’s mind too as she explained during an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton.

“I will never forget. It was a day when, you know, one hour she was fine, she was normal, she was happy, doing everything I was used to her doing and the next hour she was crying inconsolably, and that just wasn’t like her. And I did everything.”