Calendar GirlsFriends' pregnancies give birth to a business idea for three entrepreneurs.
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When Julia Linden Frazier was working as a New York City graphicdesigner in 1986, she was surrounded by pregnant women. All herfriends and co-workers were having children--and that got her tothinking about having a baby of her own.
But this "baby" would be different: not a child atall, but an educational tool for pregnant women. After hearing herfriends talk about the size of the fetus in this week of pregnancyand its stage of development in that week, Frazier was struck withher great idea: Why not feature gestation information in a specialcalendar for pregnant women, so they could track their babies'development and know what to expect along the way?
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