By Meg Bernhard
Ann Young wasn’t sure whether she would ever be a mother. She was 32 years old, married and completing a fellowship in paediatric emergency medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital – the final step in her 15 years of medical training. She was devoted to her work, and looking forward to becoming a doctor. In her free time, she loved rock climbing; she enjoyed the focus she felt while scaling rock faces. Young valued her autonomy, and wasn’t sure she was ready to give it up to have a child. “I don’t necessarily want control of everything in the world around me; I just want control of myself,” she told me.
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