内容摘要：“That would be the goal — to try and do this for next year, which is why the window to actually negotiate it will probably end sometime early summer,” he said.

“That would be the goal — to try and do this for next year, which is why the window to actually negotiate it will probably end sometime early summer,” he said.

Midwife Celena Brown speaks with Kayleigh Sturrup during a pregnancy checkup. Midwives at Commonsense Childbirth are striving to provide good, accessible care. (AP Photo/Laura Ungar)Midwife Celena Brown speaks with Kayleigh Sturrup during a pregnancy checkup. Midwives at Commonsense Childbirth are striving to provide good, accessible care. (AP Photo/Laura Ungar)

“Nervous and excited,” the 31-year-old replied. “As it comes closer, I worry: Am I going to be able to cope with the pain?”“It’s normal to feel nervous,” Brown assured her. “You want to be open to the entire process. You got this. You can do it!”Brown said she’s constantly awed by her patients’ strength. She recalled a teen just out of jail who overcame addiction and wound up giving birth vaginally without pain medication.

Joseph has no intention of returning to Europe. She has started a midwifery school, put together training programs for other health care professionals and convenes a national group of professionals and advocates who share ideas to improve maternal health and eliminate disparities over videoconference.She figures America needs her more.

“This is literally my life’s work,” she said. “I’m not stopping until it’s done.”

This story is the first in a two-part series examining how the United States could curb deaths from pregnancy and childbirth.“I feel like everybody needs at least one furry friend in their life,” Nnadi said.

Mollentine said her organization, which has a shelter in Kansas City, Kansas, is grateful for Nnadi’s help prompting adoptions. The Humane Society of Greater Kansas City has been in operation since 1912.Puppy Bowl XXI premieres Sunday at 2 p.m. EST on Animal Planet — shortly before Nnadi takes the field with the Chiefs for

Chasing a loose kangaroo is getting to be part of the job for police in a southwestern Colorado city.Irwin, the pet kangaroo, wasn’t difficult to nab when he got loose last fall in Durango. Still quite young at the time, he leaped into a bag similar to a mother kangaroo’s pouch.