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“My Husband Wanted a Son. I Wanted to Keep My Career. Here’s How We Learned to Be a Team.”
My name’s Ava, and I’m a family doctor. I spent 10 years building this life… 10 years of sleepless nights in medical school, brutal residency shifts, and learning to hold a stranger’s…