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The Super Bowl is one if those events that brings Americans together. Even if your hometown team didn't make it to the end, like one of mine did, you find something in one of the teams to root for. I felt particularly anxious for the mother whose two sons both gave it their all as they coached the competing teams, the Niners and Ravens through a historic game at the Super Dome in New Orleans last night. Just seven years after Hurricane Katrina survivors sought refuge in the Dome, we watched New Orleans host a game that was unprecedented on many levels. Here are a few parts of the game we found particularly moving, amazing, inspiring and just a little bit sad.

We’ve been convinced for a long time that birth centers are the way to go for many low-risk women seeking to have a safe vaginal birth. A new study now shows that birth centers not only deliver high-quality birth experiences, primarily through midwifery care, but they also drastically lower c-section rates and maternity health care costs.

Check out Christy’s contribution to Melinda Gates’ new campaign: My Hope for 2030, which addresses what we hope to achieve with the Millennium Development Goals going forward.

Every Mother Counts is feeling the love as we enter February. Our theme this month is Every Heart Counts and we’ll be embracing all kinds of matters of the heart. Our biggest focuses will be on how heart health impacts pregnancy, motherhood and women’s long-term health, but we’re concentrating just as hard on the importance of keeping women at the heart of our political processes.