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What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?
All right. Finally got through security. I'm currently at Austin Airport. There are two anxieties I have during flying, specifically. One of them is, can I grab my ticket? Yeah, okay. One of them is going through security, And the second is physically getting on the plane.
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What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?
Typically what happens is that, you know, I'm just like generally anxious about what it's going to take to get my shoes off, my jacket off. Am I wearing a hat? Did I wear the right shoes? Unpack everything.
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What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?
Congress is like, hey, what's going on with these shrinking seats? It's not safe for people if there's an emergency evacuation because you're supposed to be able to get off the plane in 90 seconds.
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What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?
They went to FAA. They said, you need to do some testing on this and some public comment. And they got 27,000 comments, I believe. I don't know anyone who is like, oh, they're perfect size for me. Most people are like, these are way too small. Someone said the average American cannot fit into a seat that's 17 inches wide.
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What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?
It's not just people of certain girth. It's people who have height and they have broad shoulders. It's pregnant women. So it falls under the large category of really all Americans.
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What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?
You can book online a second seat and then you will get it refunded. Or if you don't want to do that, you can also just go to the gate and right before boarding, if there's availability, they will allow you to have a second boarding pass.
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And this is when all hell breaks loose. This is a life-threatening emergency. If we don't deliver this baby in the next few minutes, you are risking serious, serious harm and death.
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Yes, the death was a homicide, but no, the midwife was not prosecuted in any way. And as far as I know, continues to practice with no repercussions.
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They had to do CPR. He didn't have oxygen for so long that he didn't have any brain activity. So my healthy seven-pound baby that was healthy throughout my entire pregnancy is now born with no brain activity and is in NICU.
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Great. I'm safe with these people. They're professionals. If anything was to go wrong, they would recognize it as it was happening or before it was happening and
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Too many American women die in pregnancy. There's no question that in the United States there's a maternal health crisis.
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How could you do that? Does another woman prey upon someone's desire to take their autonomy and their body back from this patriarchal system that we live in?
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There's a quote that says, at some point, we need to stop pulling people out of the river and travel upstream and discover why they're falling in the first place.
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they didn't have a certificate of occupancy for the clinic in Dallas. We knew that they were changing birth records. We started reporting those things.
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I believe my body will do what it's supposed to do. That's why I chose midwifery over the route of choosing an OB-GYN doctor.
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A few miles from the glass spires of midtown Atlanta lies the South River Forest. In 2021 and 2022, the woods became a home to activists from all over the country who gathered to stop the nearby construction of a massive new police training facility, nicknamed Cop City.
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At approximately 9 o'clock this morning, as law enforcement was moving through various sectors of the property, an individual, without warning, shot a Georgia State Patrol trooper.
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This is We Came to the Forest, a story about resistance. The abolitionist mission isn't done until every prison is empty and shut down. Love and fellowship. It was probably the happiest I've ever been in my life. And the lengths we'll go to protect the things we hold closest to our hearts. Follow We Came to the Forest on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I thought the birth center would be a happy medium between the hospital setting and the home birth setting.
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We assumed that these people were professionals that were being regulated by the state of Texas. They claimed to be upheld to these really high standards of care.
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I did a lot of research and found a birth center in Dallas. Little did we know it would turn out to be a total nightmare.
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I had spots in my vision. Jennifer told me that, oh, that's nothing to be worried about.
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It's not in my chart, but I was leaking meconium all night. I said, is it illegal?
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And they nodded like, yeah, it's illegal. Then when I was taking the screenshots, that's when I realized, oh my gosh, they changed something. To have a student taking care of someone without their preceptor there, to me, is below the standard of care. That is putting your client at a huge risk.