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Surrounded by Everyone Else's Children: The Pediatrician on the Fertility Journey
This episode is part of the series on why certain specialties make the fertility journey uniquely painful. Today Dr. Erica turns her attention to pediatricians — and the particular combination of triggers, professional identity questions, revolving door infections, and financial pressures that make this specialty its own kind of hard.
This episode is for the pediatrician who has dedicated her career to children and is waiting, longer than anyone should have to, for one of her own.
In this episode:
Why being surrounded by children and babies all day is deeply triggering, from the clinic to the…
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