Maybe baby: Torn between the joys and cries of motherhood

I’m among the many young women today contemplating motherhood, having to choose between career and family – and whether to have kids at all.

Increasingly, women are giving birth later and having fewer children. ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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As a medical student, I have glimpsed the reality of motherhood first-hand.

First in obstetrics and gynaecology, where I witnessed the painstaking labour of carrying a child to term, as well as my paediatrics posting, where I appreciated the boundless joy and anxiety that come with parenting.

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