I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my choice not to have kids, and what has shaped it. When I was little, I used to tell my family I was going to have nine girls someday — nine, because it felt like such an enormous, impossible number. I didn’t know then that motherhood wouldn’t be part of my own story — at least not in the way I imagined as a kid. When I was 13, I asked my parents if I could spend my spring break with my Aunt Maureen at the freestanding birth center she r

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Hello, I’m Brianna Darcey, a Registered Nurse (RN) with over 15 years of experience, including a decade in Labor & Delivery. Today, I’m...