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Working in hot weather

jesssargejesssarge member
in January 2016 Moms
I work at a garden centre on the plants department, today's outside temperature has been 26c at the highest, although I only worked from 11.30 until 4.30, I have been constantly working restocking plants etc...
It's been absolutely boiling and I've been sweating so much barring in mind in plants are in a green house tunnel it's been even hotter than 26 in there. What temperatures should I be working in, I am 20 weeks and 1 day, I'm pretty worried about this.......

Should I be?
Sorry I haven't worded this very well lol
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Re: Working in hot weather

  • willashbabywillashbaby member
    We don't use celcius, we use Fahrenheit so I'm not sure where she is. 
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  • enkbenkb member
    edited August 2015
    Can you ask your care provider what specifically would be a warning sign of a problem or a max safe temperature? I would assume that if you are healthy and not having a high risk pregnancy that your body will be pretty good at regulating temperature and baby is not getting hot. I would think you'd just want to make super sure you were staying hydrated and if you noticed you were light headed, really red skin, stopped sweating, or any other sign of heat exhaustion you would need to immediately cool off. Probably also depends on what you're used to, women in hot climates are probably going to be better at dealing with the heat, so if this is something you haven't been exposed to much before it may be more of an issue.


    I do alot of gardening, even when its in the 90 degree f range and my midwife said 'listen to your body' if it doesn't feel right don't do it, sit and rest more and make sure you drink enough to need to pee at least every 1.5-2 hours
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  • maureenmcemaureenmce member
    I would definitely check in with your dr.  My OBGYN doesn't get concerned unless my body temperature goes over 101 (whether it's fever or bath or whatever.)  But it may be hard to gauge that while at work.  If you are getting overheated, I'd recommend bringing some sort of mini cooler with you to keep in the break room (hopefully you have one?) and keep ice, cold water and a wash cloth.  You can put the wash cloth on the back of your neck (and anywhere else) and it will help cool you down more quickly than just drinking water.  (Though you should totally drink tons of water.)

    Agree with PP about taking breaks as needed, ideally somewhere cool, and listening to your body.  Take care!
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  • jesssargejesssarge member
    Should have really put that from the UK. Think I'll ring midwife in the morning just to ask her because can't actually take how hot it is!!
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