the weekend of podcast recs 🎧

It was great to be back this week, and I've been listening to podcasts like crazy to catch up. That's why this weekend I'm highlighting two I've really liked: 

First is season 2 of The Retrievals from the New York Times, which follows a labor and delivery nurse who becomes the patient—then feels *everything* during her C-section. It’s a continuation on an all-to-common theme in women's health: the systemic failure to treat women’s pain. (Plus those trying to fix it!)

I'm also enjoying Chuck Todd’s new podcast. It opens with a lot of US politics, but he also does in-depth interviews with people who often don't get to talk longform. In the past few weeks that includes the directors of a new Ms. Magazine doc and Rep. Brittany Pettersen, who fought for proxy voting so new moms in Congress could recover without losing their voice.

• Worth Repeating: Pregnant Women, Infants, Young Children are NOT Protected in Proposed Medicaid Cuts // Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University
   
• Most US pregnant women, parents of young kids don't plan to accept all recommended kids' vaccines // Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at University of Minnesota
   
• ACOG to Release Recommendations on COVID-19 Vaccine and Other Maternal Immunizations in Concert with the Vaccine Integrity Project // ACOG
   
• New Study Reveals This Common Sleep Issue Is The Top Predictor Of Heart Disease For Women Over 45 // Women’s Health
   
• Human eggs power down to protect themselves // Center for Genomic Regulation
   
• Hormone therapy supercharges tirzepatide, unleashing major weight loss after menopause // The Endocrine Society
   
• Destroying 50 years of women’s health samples is like ‘burning the Library of Congress’ // CNN
   
• It’s a Surgery That’s Often Viewed as a Tragedy. For Many, It’s Actually a Wonderful Choice. // Slate