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Guest Essay

By Irin Carmon

Ms. Carmon is a features writer at New York magazine and the author of the forthcoming book “Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America.”

Early one morning last spring, my daughter, then 4½, asked me to tell her again how we’d once been connected by her belly button. She had begun to imagine a tiny version of herself drinking from an umbilical........

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