The doctor confirms Candida KingBird and Bruce McQuakay’s good news: a child on the way.
But Oregon Health & Science University physician Jorge Tolosa, a specialist in preterm births, warns it’s a high-risk pregnancy.

KingBird, 38, has lived a decade with diabetes and has five children, the last of whom nearly died from problems related to the disease after a cesarean section.

She and McQuakay, 30, lean and reserved, met a year earlier during the intense Sun Dance ceremony on Mount Hood. They found a bond in their Native American culture and spirituality. She is Ojibwe; he has the blood of four tribes, including Cree and Tlingit. She likes that he has completed high school, has silversmith skills, helps lead the Sun Dance, dances in full regalia at powwows and has been sober more than two years.

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