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The Real Reason Women Co-workers Get Pregnant at the Same Time

In the past year-and-a-half, a whopping . And at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina, six nurse practitioners are pregnant at once. When I was expecting my first in 2014, there were also , each with a due date about one month ahead of the next mom-to-be. Sure, baby booms are to be expected at companies that employ many women of childbearing age. But there’s something

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