Working in a noisy factory affect baby hearing?

Re: Working in a noisy factory affect baby hearing?

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• marionberry19 member

  October 2021

  so I don’t know where you live but I assume your job is required to make accommodations for you when you’re pregnant as that seems like standard practice. But first I would check with your OB and see what decibel is too loud for baby and see if your work environment exceeds that. 

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• daisy0322 member

  October 2021

  Hey! That’s a great question and I think @marionberry19 answered really well. In this community we usually try to avoid “one off” threads so s great place to ask this question would be “ask a STM+” 

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• scp2012 member

  October 2021 edited October 2021

  I haven't told my job in pregnant and don't intend to until absolutely necessary.  I'm still in probation period and I know from multiple experiences that once jobs know you're pregnant it all goes down hill.  I've been let go because of work performance,job ending(even though it didn't end for the rest of team), and told they don't have light duty and I can take leave for 6 months until after baby is born and then come back(I'd like them to explain that to my bills that I can't work for 6 plus months). I know it's illegal to let someone go due to pregnancy but it's always labeled as something else and it coincidentally happens within a week of me informing them I'm pregnant.  Where I live the only decent paying jobs are factories. Most factories simply don't have lite duty work. They can put you on the easiest job they have but it's still a physical factory with noise.   I truly love this new job and don't want to lose it. I didn't even know I was pregnant until after I started the job.
  Daisy0322 sorry if I posted in wrong section. I don't know where "ask a stm+" is. Or what "one off" is. Sorry I'm new to threads and still trying to navigate. Any help is appreciated. I will ask my doctor definitely but in the meantime, if anyone who has experience with this sort of situation has any advice or stories of how they handled their similar situation I would be very grateful for the info.

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• daisy0322 member

  October 2021

  @scp2012 check out the post that is labeled “read this first” it should help answer some questions for you. As for your work situation I’m sorry It sounds like your in a difficult spot. I’d call your OB they probably are the best person to talk to about what is safest for you and baby 💕 it’s a pretty serious question, I’d hate for anyone to steer you wrong. 

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• wiseh member

  October 2021

  Short answer is yes, not only damaging to the ears but exposure to loud noises causes increased cortisol levels in humans which is not great either. 

  
  

  The recommendation is to avoid prolonged exposure to >80dB on a regular basis. 80dB is about the noise registered if you stand next to a vacuum cleaner. 

  
  

  I would contact your work’s occupational hygienist & ask them to do a sound study - or ask for records of any recent sound studies. You don’t have to be specific to your pregnancy but say you’re curious and/or concerned for future pregnancies? 

  
  

  Also @daisy0322 I think this is a question that can relate to multiple people. Me, for example! Haha. I had the same question when I was pregnant with my DD. I actually helped do the research and develop the policy for pregnancy hygiene in my workplace for things like noise, vibration & chemical exposure  

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