Dr. Vonda Wright

We're not going to apply the vast knowledge.

I'm a little offended by it, actually, if you want to know the truth.

Why can I be so encouraged and be considered top of my field when I adopt new technologies?

But in your field, 13 million parents or 26 million parents...

would be told that technology is not okay.

Well, I don't know the real statistics, but I'm sure they exist.

But in my experience as a high-capacity, high-stress, not sleeping for 11 or 22 years, I have seen it a lot.

And it happened to me.

And when I had mine, I was in training.

And A, I didn't want to call my attending and tell them because he was a man.

And I didn't think I could take any time off.

Same.

I went back the next day.

I would have gone back the same day, but I could barely move.

I was running labor and delivery at night.

So I think—

Hopefully, part of this international conversation about women's health, not just gynecological health, but health in general, will give women grace.

Because there's no way that I should have been expected to go back to an orthopedic surgery residency the day after I lost a child.

Or, frankly, I don't know what your experiences were, but in my generation of doctors, and I'm sure it happens everywhere, I went back to work less than five weeks after delivering a child.

And I think other European countries have it right.