Tearing Up Carpet While Pregnant

Hi i pulled up a smelly old carpet in the place i m renting and while tearing the carpet pad up it released lots of stinky yellow dust in the air.

Tearing up carpet while pregnant.

Carpeting brings wall to wall softness and warmth to a room both visually and physically. But she can still rip up the threads of the carpet under the door even with them on. Pregnant cats kittens. Maybe sleep in a different room for a couple of days.

They are notorious carpet diggers and. You also know the birthing process is going to release a lot of fluids so put rags and old carpet on top of the dry deck rubber matting. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Have a professional installer a good flooring service with professional installers will understand your concerns and work within your parameters. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Ask if it s possible to have your flooring cut prior to installation.

While there is nothing you can do now short of ripping out your brand new carpeting know that of all the new flooring carpet is probably the lowest emitting as far as toxins are concerned. I had an i95 mask on but it didn t fit properly and i could still smell everything. You know she s going to dig and shred and prepare her nest. Cat food feeding.

Vinyls use adhesives which give off more voc s that s the bad gases than carpet and wood floors contain formaldehyde which is worse. Either way it may be time to tear up the carpet and restore the hardwood flooring. There are some unsavory parts of childbirth and one of them is an almost certain consequence of first time vaginal deliveries. She doesn t really do any other damage to the room besides this unless you count the pile of hair on my bed from her grooming herself up there.

Ok so pregnancy has made me hyper aware of chemicals possible toxins and it s making me crazy. We just got new carpet and while i asked my doc beforehand she said it was fine i am still super paranoid about walking on it being down near it or even in the rooms at all. Put the whelping nest in a quiet private place. Ok then get inventive.

It s important to normalize the notion of vaginal tearing. Create airflow for optimal dissipation. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.