She graduated from Yale after raising 3 kids. Her son was her classmate.

Vanessa Landegger had long dreamed of working in medicine.

She enrolled in courses as a first-year medical student in Colorado in 2000, but soon found herself struggling to balance classes with raising her then 8-month-old son. She was away from extended family, sleep was hard to come by and her medical school’s facilities didn’t have accommodations for nursing mothers, she said.