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 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