At night, I’d wake up to get some air because I was so hot. I was scared, because the doctors told me to stay in a cool place, but they didn’t understand my reality. I thought maybe the heat was because of the pregnancy, but the heat was real; it wasn’t just because I was pregnant. Here, they often link pregnancy problems to something the woman has done or eaten, but I know that it was the effect of the heat and the stress, with 40 to 41 degrees (celsius) of heat, going back and forth between hospitals. I didn’t know if it was climate change or what, but we experienced a strange kind of heat.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2024 15:14 UTC