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Mom Comes First

Note: Anna did not attend freestyle session; she took the time to reflect on life as a mom:

For most of the past 3 years, I have been an inactive or at best, part-time b-girl. Not that I fell off or anything. I just had a baby. B-boys have babies all the time - and I'm sure it's life changing as well. But they usually still dance/travel, etc... If you're a b-girl though and you have a baby, it's WAAAAY different. Everything changes. At least for me it did. No more doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. No more dancing - I stopped a month after I found out I was pregnant. It's like having an injury but not in a bad way; you just know you have to stop for a year or maybe more. No more free time when the baby popped out. It was time to be super-responsible, work as much as I could and have everything ready. But that was all my choice. The baby became the most important part of my life, and that felt right for me.

While I was prego, I still went to jams. Not so much to practice though. It felt weird just sitting there watching everyone else dance. I didn't want to get used to that feeling. I was planning on picking up where I left off when the time came. My breaking life was on pause, not over. I was never unsure about that. Life after the baby was SOOOO hard. Alaina was not an easy baby! She was the best, but it was crazy hard for me. I went a little nuts.