Reacting to labor contractions Ada Mendoza, 24, leans on her mother as they leave the Hugo Chavez Frias Public Maternal and Children’s Hospital after doctors ordered them to return home to wait for more frequent contractions, in the El Valle neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, just after midnight, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. Mendoza returned to the hospital four hours later, and gave birth to her daughter Peyton, after five hours of labor. Photo: Matias Delacroix – AP.