Hot Office

[AKP79]

I want to start by saying, I'm not complaining about this weather, because I love it.

However, I work in an extremely hot office with limited means of cooling it down. It's a completely glass upstairs office within a completely glass building with no opening windows or air con. I've got 3 fans around my desk which I already have on full, which as we can't open windows isn't great because it circulates warm air.

I'm not too worried at the moment because although I am ridiculously hot, I'm not sure this weather is lasting beyond the weekend, but I'm due in July so I know there will be lots of hot days to come.

I've looked into it before I was pregnant and there isn't an upper safe working temperature. Do you know if this changes when you're pregnant? Surely it is not safe to overheat in pregnancy?

Not sure what to do as I'm struggling today and as I get further on and if the weather gets warm again it's going to be very hard to cope.

Any advice would be welcomed.

I live in South Australia where temperatures get very scary in summer. Some tricks I've learned are as follows.

Take a long cotton scarf, run it under a cold tap and wring it out. Put it round your neck. That helps with a fan on too...

Keep hydrated.

Take a little lunchbag with an icepack in it...one of the insulated bags. When you get too hot, rub the icepack on your wrists and neck by your ears. Those are pulse points and cooling them down will speedily cool the rest of you down.

This is brilliant - thank you @ajaslipstick

After I posted I was thinking about all the other professions countries where people have to work in hot conditions.

I've had a few MMCs and I do have a tendency of getting myself wound up and super paranoid about things which may affect the baby.

I feel for you op , I was heavily pregnant last summer and had to work in a classroom that hit 30 during the heatwave , only one window could be opened and the fan was at the front of the class with me working at the back. This with 27 kids milling around was pretty horrific.

Firstly, don't be a hero. There were two separate occasions where I just asked for permission to go home because my head was thumping and I felt light headed.

Get a flask/coffee mug for iced water and keep sipping and wear light fabrics. Do not worry about dress code!

I hope you cope okay.

How many weeks are you? It sucks being too hot when you're pregnant but I don't think you'll harm the baby. I sympathise though - I'm nearly 38 weeks and teaching full time in a hot, stuffy classroom. I've been drinking cold drinks, sitting down when I can and just wearing as cool clothes as possible.