For pregnant people, extreme heat comes with extra risks

The Associated Press ^ | October 23, 2025 | BY MELINA WALLING

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Doctors have long known that heat puts a strain on the heart, kidneys and other organs. Those risks are exacerbated for pregnant people, as the body’s processes for staying cool are altered.

It’s a problem that climate change, caused by the burning of fuels like gasoline and coal, is worsening. Intensifying extreme heat events, high temperatures well into the night and shattering weather records means more exposure for pregnant people, particularly in developing countries.

Here’s what to know about the science of pregnancy and extreme heat:

Pregnancy changes the body in myriad ways, which can make it more difficult and uncomfortable to dissipate heat.

“An obvious thing is, pregnant people have a belly bump, depending how far along they are, and that’s a change in their surface to volume ratio,” said Anna Bershteyn, an associate professor at New York University. Heat leaves your body through your skin, so when the belly gets larger, the heat has farther to travel to escape.

Research is beginning to show exposure to extreme heat even in the months before getting pregnant may affect a future pregnancy, said Cara Schulte, a researcher with the University of California Berkeley and the nonprofit Climate Rights International studying maternal health and heat.

Heat can also worsen anxiety, depression and feelings of isolation and once the baby is born, “all of those things are compounded by this difficulty that postpartum women have in caring for their children in the heat,” Schulte said.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Pregnant people.

[exnavy]

Women get pregnant. People do not.

[HIDEK6]

I hate AP. Pregnant people?

[NorthMountain]

crAP bitching about “climate change” ...

[Bigbrown]

“crAP bitching about “climate change” ...”
Yep, the “CR” are silent in the word crAP.

[T.B. Yoits]

"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are force to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is... in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." - Theodore Dalrymple

[Lizavetta]

They can try their little hearts out but they will never make me say pregnant people, chestfeeding, birthing person, assigned at birth, or any of that other BS.

[T.B. Yoits]

[yldstrk]

WOMEN.

[cyclotic]

Pregnant women hardest hit. Pregnant men are not affected.

[stinkerpot65]

Democrats are evil scum.

[Dilbert San Diego]

They have to go out of their way to make sure they don’t say pregnant women. They are so afraid of offending certain leftist types, who would be offended at the suggestion that only women could be pregnant. So they have to exercise these verbal gymnastics, so that they don’t offend those people .

That’s where we are at.

[Texas Fossil]

For pregnant people

AP = Always Propaganda

Double Bag Barf

[Hoboto]

We live in incredibly stupid times.

[odawg]

In a very serious article I read the other day, they used the term “chestfeeders.”

[SunkenCiv]

The pivot back to the Global Warming Hoax is on. It's a conspiracy, and a crime against humanity. Panic Porn from a Partisan Media Shill and Stooge alert.

• UN chief calls for 'fight' against climate disinformation [10/22/2025]

[Varda]

I’ve seen that term used on a university medical center web site.
People really need to pay attention to where they send their kids to school.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I went to a weight loss seminar with a friend and the very nice speaker told us about one he did in NY where he addressed an ALL FEMALE CROWD as ‘girls’ -’Hey, girls, lets get started...” and one of those disgusting FAT COWS called the home office and demanded he be FIRED for ‘assuming her gender’.

I am not saying people like her need to be punched in the face and dragged out and thrown to the ground but, anywaaaaay. ... I forgot what I was saying.....

[Pontiac]

Intensifying extreme heat events, high temperatures well into the night and shattering weather records means more exposure for pregnant people, particularly in developing countries.

Which is why the Nanny State Liberals in the developed world need to shut up and get out of the way so the people in developing countries can have Cheap Electric Power.

Cheap electric power will allow these people to have Air Conditioning.

Cheap electric power will allow them to develop economically.

The Nanny State Global Warmist are stopping the Third World from developing with their restrictions on electric power.

Green Energy is expensive energy. The Third World can't afford Green Energy. Cheap power is essential for economic development.

[13Sisters76]

Another piece of absolute b*llsh*t from the dinosaur media...and they are never embarrassed by it.