This story was produced through a collaboration between The Tributary and Climate Central.
Kelly Googe has a lot of stories from her 32 years as a doula coaching women through their pregnancies. But, especially in the summer, she returns to one story repeatedly: A Jacksonville client, seven months pregnant, whose electricity was turned off because she couldn’t keep up with the bills.
“Her home was ridiculously hot, and she worked on her feet in a warehouse. She fainted, and when they got her to the hospital, her core temperature was very, very, high,” she said. “She was going into shock, and her amniotic fluid levels had dropped drastically because of dehydration, and because she had sustained days of heat exposure without relief.”…