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The first blood clot was about the size of an avocado. Beatrice Mikkola, 30 years old, was exhausted. She had just arrived home from the hospital, having survived a postpartum hemorrhage while giving birth to her first child. She was trying to care for a newborn. And she was passing blood clots from her vagina. At first, her health providers told her this was normal. Then, about a month after her delivery, she bled through her pants and several maxi pads. She got dizzy. “Your body just goes, like, ‘Whoosh.’ I was like, ‘There’s something wrong.’ ” The Calgary resident went to the...