Floor Varnish And Pregnancy

To be safe let someone else do that job or wait to do the work yourself after your baby is born.

Floor varnish and pregnancy.

I just had my hardwood floors refinished with an oil based polyurethane finish. Research that has looked at paint exposure during pregnancy has not shown consistent results. It s probably best that you don t varnish wood when you re pregnant just in case. The floors were finished on a wednesday and we returned to the house 6 days later on a tuesday.

It s best to limit your exposure to paint and paint fumes while you re pregnant. Avoid directly mixing resins if at all possible. Chemical exposure can occur in a variety of ways. The house still smells like fumes.

I am 3 months pregnant and am very concerned about exposure to. Refinishing furniture can expose you to solvents that may have risks for your baby. At the moment it s not known exactly how the chemicals and solvents used to strip and varnish wood may affect your unborn baby. Dreaming of new hardwood floors before baby comes.

Ask someone else to mix them for you. You can do it but the best advice is to pack up your pregnant self and go to a hotel while the work is being completed by someone else like a licensed contractor. Increase ventilation as much as possible. Ok so staying in the house with polyurethane fumes is definitely out.

If you are pregnant consider talking to your employers to avoid these duties during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The dust created by sanding existing floors and the fumes emitted by the high potency chemicals used on flooring are unsafe to inhale. You can breathe it in ingest it in foods or beverages or in some cases absorb it through your skin. Pregnancy is not the time to refinish furniture.

If avoidance during pregnancy and breastfeeding is not possible. Martinez tells webmd that if a woman takes the drug during pregnancy there is a 30 to 35 risk for major birth defects including complete absence of the thymus gland. Most paint contains solvents petroleum based chemicals that can cause health problems if you inhale too much of them. We re trying to match the finish in the hallway which i m sure was done with a polyurethane finish so hopefully we can get close using a different finish.

Leaving the house for a week isn t really an option so i guess we ll look for an alternative to a polyurethane based finish.