{"id":3447,"date":"2026-08-26T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/being-a-mom-is-hard-the-heat-is-making-it-harder\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:14:08","slug":"being-a-mom-is-hard-the-heat-is-making-it-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/being-a-mom-is-hard-the-heat-is-making-it-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a mom is hard \u2014 the heat is making it harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo illustration of earth in a heating pot of water.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25824776\/STK438_CLIMATE_CHANGE_A.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&rsquo;s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. \u00ab\u00a0How was the botanic garden?\u00a0\u00bb I ask him. \u00ab\u00a0It was okay. It was just too hot,\u00a0\u00bb he tells me. I didn&rsquo;t expect us to spend so much of our son&rsquo;s first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone, effective for at least the next three days. \u00ab\u00a0Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures up to 110 [degrees Fahrenheit] expected,\u00a0\u00bb my weather app warns me. \u00ab\u00a0Stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/985225\/heat-stress-children-climate-change-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. 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