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June 6, 2023

005: Bun in a Crazy-Hot Oven

005: Bun in a Crazy-Hot Oven

Prep your pregnancy for summer with the Green Docs and guest expert Miri Marshall, Weather Anchor at WUSA-9 in Washington, DC.  Miri details how expectant moms and others can best anticipate and lower the risks of the season’s scorching...

Prep your pregnancy for summer with the Green Docs and guest expert Miri Marshall, Weather Anchor at WUSA-9 in Washington, DC.  Miri details how expectant moms and others can best anticipate and lower the risks of the season’s scorching heat.  Nate and Bruce follow up with your vital Heat Action Plan — loaded with specific recommendations and weather resources, and even some apps you’ll want to download.

The Green Docs always begin with the latest headlines – Tennessee’s shrinking number of hospitals delivering babies, an Italian study finding microplastics in breast milk, and even a memory from Nicolas Cage, who recalls seeing faces from inside his mother’s womb!  

After this episode,  you’ll weather the summer heat with no sweat – taking Miri’s authoritative weather advice combined with the guys’ practical solutions – and you can keep those precious buns cool and protected from a crazy-hot oven.

Show Links

Tennessee hospital closures:
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2023/may/11/rural-tennessee-hospitals-tfp/

Microplastics in breast milk?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/opinion/microplastics-health-environment.html

Nicolas Cage and pre-birth memories:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/05/03/nicolas-cage-first-memory-was-inside-mother-womb/70181675007/

A Sound Beginning prenatal program: https://wombsongs.com/

Heat and risks to pregnancies:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767260?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=061820
and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33148618/

Miri Marshall interviews Nate for WUSA special coverage of heat and pregnant risks:
https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech/science/environment/pregnancy-and-climate-change-air-pollution-preterm-labor-stillbirth-braxton-hicks-low-birth-weight-heat-extreme-heat-weather-health/65-78d00d3f-8a7c-457d-bd34-0113149ff6ce

Apps and online heat and humidity info: NOAA weather app “Heat Index:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noaaweather_lite.android&pli=1

Apple iOS weather app (available in the App Store): hourly temp/humidity

Weather websites: Weather.com; Accuweather.com

Heat resources: heat exhaustion and heat stroke:
https://www.americares.org/wp-content/uploads/PATIENT.Heat_Tip_Sheet_for_Patients_Pregnancy_Final.pdf

Public Health Institute:
https://climatehealthconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HeatPoster18x24.pdf

CDC: heat and reproductive health
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/repro/heat.html

Miri Marshall Profile Photo

Miri Marshall

Television Meteorologist

Miri Marshall is an award winning meteorologist serving the D.C. area at WUSA Channel 9. In addition to forecasting, Miri has a strong passion for sharing climate change and health stories with viewers and readers. She is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and enjoys reading , cooking authentic Creole cuisine, and traveling.