Author: Helen Hunt & Jo Lederer
Author title: Helen Hunt, Midwife, Antenatal Teacher and Director of Becoming Families, UK Jo Lederer, Perinatal Specialist and Director of Becoming Families, UK
Description: Like many great ideas, the seed for Becoming Families was sown over coffee at the kitchen table. It was 2011 - we had recently qualified as antenatal teachers having trained with a large national charity, but were finding that working within its organisational constraints did not afford us the autonomy and flexibility that we wanted. With goals initially no greater than to provide local, personalised antenatal education that was affordable and accessible, we began running stand- alone birth preparation workshops at a local Children’s Centre, under the name of ‘Birth Choices Worcestershire’, Worcestershire being the county in the west of England where we both live. We could not have predicted that in just a few short years we would be running Becoming Families, a charity that supports over 300 local families a year from pregnancy through the first two years. 

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