405: Premature with Sarah Digregorio

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Premature
Sarah Digregorio
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Once a month I have to tell a pregnant yoga student that she cannot practice in our studio, cannot hang upside down in the Yoga Trapeze, or practice long-hold, passive stretches in our Gravity Yoga classes.

Why? We teach strong, athletic classes with inversions and deep stretches. It’s not safe. I’ve been accused of trying to tell women what to do with their bodies (and worse!), but the truth is, I just want to keep students safe, including the unborn ones.

On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a journalist whose premature birth served as the impetus for the research and writing of an entire book on the history of premature birth that includes oven-incubated babies and circus sideshow preemies.

Listen & Learn:

How incubators for preemies were first introduced in 1880
How stress, age, pollution, and other unknown factors are potential contributors
Why 50% of the time, the cause of premature birth is unknown
How to think about this problem holistically

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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Sarah is a freelance journalist who has written for various publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, Food & Wine, BuzzFeed, Parade, and Saveur. Her work has been included in the Best American Food Writing yearly anthologies three times. Her new book is called, EARLY: A History of Premature Birth and What is Tells us About Being Human.

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0:00.0	At least once a month for as long as I can remember I'm put in the very awkward situation of having to tell a pregnant woman that she can't take yoga classes in our studios.
0:11.5	We have strong athletic classes, we hang upside down from
0:14.4	yoga trapezes, we do deep stretching that's totally inappropriate if you have
0:17.8	relaxed and hormone pumping through your body and we're just not a prenatal studio. It's not
0:22.0	what we're set up for.
0:22.8	We've certainly had workshops and teachers come in to teach that in the past, but it's not on our
0:26.7	regular drop-in schedule. The reason it's an awkward situation is because about half the time
0:30.9	women push back and get pretty upset at me and they say that
0:34.2	I don't understand their body, I shouldn't be telling them what to do with their body, it's their choice,
0:38.4	they know it's safe and what's not.
0:40.4	And I think in most cases people haven't really looked at the research.
0:44.0	The birthing stats right now are pretty scary, especially in developed countries.
0:49.0	I'm going to say that again, not developing countries, developed countries, the most developed countries have some of the bigger problems, like the US, for example,
0:55.0	premature birth, miscarriage rates, they're all through the roof.
1:00.0	And people don't really realize right now, you know, anywhere from 11 to 12% of
1:04.7	pregnancies have early deliveries and about half those have no known cause but
1:08.9	about 30% are ruptures. So from things like hanging upside down in a yoga trap piece, as soon as I say this to people,
1:15.6	they show me their Instagram feed and show me a woman with a barbell on her shoulders doing
1:20.8	squats at a crossfit box or a woman with an exposed
1:24.1	eight month belly doing a handstand or a dropback in yoga as if that that picture
1:28.8	is somehow proof that that's a safe practice. I don't think it is. I don't think I am telling people what to do.
1:35.4	I think I'm just looking at the data and try to be a safe teacher and try to keep my
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