Brains and athleticism make Naomi Girma essential to the USWNT at 2023 World Cup

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...