Healthy Mama Magazine SPECIAL RED Edition - Feb 2015 | Page 63

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Interview with Krystal Barter,
Founder of

Tell us a little bit about your your journey as a mother, what do you think was
a turning point for you?

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I very, very mistakenly fell pregnant at 20 years of age! I
was not in a place where I was prepared or ready to be a
parent. We’ve been married now for 11 years but we had
only been together for eight or nine months when we
got pregnant. I was on the pill, it was not something that
I was ready for. When I actually went to have my ultrasound to work out how far along I was, I was four and
a half months gone. So, I didn’t have any options, even
if I wanted them. In that moment, I said, “Okay, this is
obviously the card that has been dealt to me and I’m
going to have to hold my head up and get on with it”. It
doesn’t mean I didn’t cry for months and was scared
because I had never even held a newborn bab