I knew that I eventually wanted to be a midwife before I even got pregnant with Keira, but it was her birth that led me down the path of midwifery much sooner than I had initially planned.  I had wanted to wait until I was done having kids and they were all in school, but I found myself called to start my midwifery schooling when she was only a few months old.  My daughter and her birth changed me in many ways, and I’ll be forever grateful.  To fully understand how, I have to start a little further back…