When Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin went into labour with her second child early, she was in the middle of grading her students’ work.
“My closest friend was telling me to go to the hospital. My partner was like, ‘Let’s go to the hospital,’ but I’m like, ‘No, I have to finish this because once I have this baby, I don’t know how I’m going to do it,’” the Queen’s University associate professor recalled.
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