Our Birth Story by Karen Mitchell, Expert Birth + Baby Educator
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In 1986 I became pregnant. I had always had an interest in psychology and why people do things and where they are coming from but when I had my first baby I really dug into that. I was lucky enough to be very mindful and place a great deal of importance on the actual process from the nuts and bolts of what you're eating in a day to how how your life looks spiritually and your relationship with nature. I dug into every aspect of having a baby. I ended up finding two women that did prenatal classes together and back in those days they were very long, eight nine weeks and you'd go once a week and they delved into everything you could possibly think of. I wanted to have a good experience and I also had a little bit of a natural distrust and cynicism for institutions. I was not a person who really liked hospitals and I wanted to have a joyful independent experience that was empowering. I really thought about this little human coming into the world and what that might look like