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(Lighthearted) to think if we have another unbearable summer like last year

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Namechangedtoscream · 23/03/2018 20:33

I should be able to demand baby be brought on early. Fwiw I'm due 7th September and live in the south east where it hit full on melting temperatures last year for long periods of time. I hate the heat. I am dreading this summer and being a beached whale.

I've told DH of my cunning strategy to insist on an early baby if I can't cope he's not impressed and says he'll just invest in a whale sized paddling pool for the garden for me.

Who is bu here? (Clearly I am but seriously I'm already stressed about the summer and need coping strategies!)

OP posts:
MsGameandWatching · 23/03/2018 20:52

It definitely was boiling for a couple of weeks last summer. I froze water bottles to take out on my dog walks because it was so unbearable at times.

Bombardier25966 · 23/03/2018 20:52

You can Google historical temperatures. Except for a few days August 2017 was not particularly hot at all!

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Namechangedtoscream · 23/03/2018 20:53

I knew I wasn't going mad as I remember advice going round not to walk dogs on pavements due to the chance of paw pad burns.

I'm sorry so many of you know why I'm worried but reassured you all made it through Grin

OP posts:
roses2 · 23/03/2018 20:53

I'm in London. 2017 summer was freezing! Summer 2016 was scorching hot for four months and I loved it :)

Queenio24 · 23/03/2018 20:53

I need to move down south. The summer in the north west last year was shit, cold and wet. The summer hols had the worst weather I can remember for the entire holidays.
I can recall a hot weekend in June, and the odd day in May, otherwise very shit and cold.

Rhodes2015again · 23/03/2018 20:54

I remember it being hot last year! I’m West Midlands.
I was due to have DD on July 4th and was meant to finish work 2.5weeks before. Ended up going a week early due to office being stifling and me irritating everyone else by constantly putting the air con on full blast!
Baby was 9 days late so I ended up having 5 weeks at home sitting on the sofa in my pants with the patio doors open!
Get that paddling pool! Great idea Grin

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 23/03/2018 20:54

I must have imagined the 30c+ temperatures last year then
No, you didn’t! Maybe we live in the same road and it was VERY local weather for local people Grin. DH was living in Singapore last July and there was about a week in July when it was hotter where we were! Average about 32/33 I think, and then again in August. You need to get yourself a Dyson fan (they’re brilliant) and not move from in front of it all summer!

cadburyegg · 23/03/2018 20:55

YANBU but a friend of mine gave birth last May right in the middle of the heat wave, so...

MrsPreston11 · 23/03/2018 20:56

Supermarket.

I wanted to move into Sainsburys during my summer pregnancy

Dungeondragon15 · 23/03/2018 20:57

I don't remember any particularly hot days last year. Are you sure you aren't thinking of the year before? I would really like a hot summer as with the pound being so low, it would be nice not to have to go abroad to warm up.

NamelessNinja · 23/03/2018 20:59

YANBU. I had my DS last August and whilst Labour (air conditioned room) and maternity leave (lots of fans and hiding from the heat) weren't too bad, the heatwaves of June were unbearable. I was stuck doing a very physical job on a thirty + degree ward!

camelfinger · 23/03/2018 21:00

21st June 2017

camelfinger · 23/03/2018 21:02

And we definitely had the paddling pool out in april last year.

dangermouseisace · 23/03/2018 21:04

I had my 1st at the end of a heatwave. Being pregnant in extreme heat has its advantages. One woman in my antenatal class refused to go into work one day as it was too hot (29 in the shade). I saw the heat as an excuse to stock up on callipos and eat them under the tree in the garden, whilst reading. No housework/nesting as too hot. It’s quite nice going swimming/floating about in the local pool if you can.

It was nice to have the excuse to do so little (no such luck with subsequent kids) so don’t fear the heat....it could be your friend Grin

juddyrockingcloggs · 23/03/2018 21:04

OP you have my deepest sympathies. When people say it's 'nice and warm' it makes me twitchy and angry. Nothing is nice about being warm. Ever. Pregnant or not. I also remember it being 7 million degrees last year but having said that I consider anything above 12 degrees to be too hot.

I hope your DH sees sense and either demands an early delivery or rents a house in the coldest depths of earth for you.

Bluntness100 · 23/03/2018 21:04

I don't think it was as hot last year as the year before. I recall the year before having to keep the windows open, lots of Wasps coming in and not being able to sleep due to the heat. Last year I called a wasp guy out because I didn't want thr same thing to happen and I recall I didn't need the windows open so much anyway.

Anyways. I feel your pain. I had my daughter nearly 21 years Ago, it was blindingly hot and I still remember vividly sitting in the back garden crying to my husband that I didn't want to be pregnant any more I was so hot, big and uncomfortable. He didn't really have a solution. Has to be said.🤣

Terftastic · 23/03/2018 21:06

I remember the threads last summer with loads of people moaning about the heat.

I love the hot weather - but also have a September baby (now a teen) and remember the misery of the heat that summer I was pregnant.

So YANBU.

applesareredandgreen · 23/03/2018 21:06

Last Summer we had a really hot couple of weeks early / mid June. We then went on UK holiday the last week of June after DS exams had finished and the weather was crap. It continued crap for the rest of the Summer (Midlands).

But OP I was also heavily pregnant in heatwave 17 years ago and it's not fun!

Terftastic · 23/03/2018 21:07

Ooh, I just remembered everyone getting sunburned at DD's sport's day last summer too.

YouCantGetHereFromThere · 23/03/2018 21:07

Get a portable air conditioning unit, put it in the room with the couch, and stay there?

I'm in the US and we have portable AC units in several bedrooms - they work really well as long as you keep the doors shut.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 23/03/2018 21:08

DS2 was due 9th August. He arrived on the 22nd. It was horrible. Just stay in your house with the curtains closed, or lie in a cold bath.

makingmiracles · 23/03/2018 21:09

I wasn’t pregnant last summer but I had previous pregnancies through proper bad heat waves so I can sympathise with your worries.
Top tips would be paddling pool, fan(freeze a bottle of water and put in front of the fan to help aid the circulation of cold air) several bags office cubes in the freezer, for drinking/sucking/putting in a bowl with water to cool your feet. A water spritzer bottle(or two that you can rotate!) that you can fill and keep in fridge and spritz your face/hair with when its feeling unbearable!

Last summer hols was very wet overall, the hottest was June, was horredous during the week of my 1yr olds bday and on her bday she was totally miserable due to the heat.

Sunshinerainbowslollipops · 23/03/2018 21:09

South east here and Christ last summer was unbearable. I hated every second of it. Too too hot!

NoFuckingRoomOnMyBroom · 23/03/2018 21:10

I had DS in an October when my part of the country was in the midst of an Indian summer-the Labour suite had been switched to winter heating & was fucking unbearable.
I don't remember last year being particularly balmy anywhere for more than a week so I feel you need to give your head a little wobble...

unweavedrainbow · 23/03/2018 21:11

Well, in Southampton it was consistently around 20 degrees from April onwards, with a good few mid to high 20s days sprinkled about and some very hot days in June and August (we hit 30 degrees in the last week of August). It didn't drop to less than 18 degrees or so till mid October. I would consider that a good summer, really.