Is the farm safe?

[Pennyblossom12]

Hi everyone,

I'm a Nursery teacher and my class are going on a farm trip in July, by then I will be 16 weeks pregnant. I'm just wondering what you would all do in my shoes. I know farms can be unsafe for pregnant woman but lambing season should be over by then. The school has said it's up to me whether I want to go or not. I don't want to let my class down but I also don't want there to be any risk to the baby.

Thanks

I live on a farm . We have had 2 months of lambing. I stayed away from the lambs and my husband washed his hands coming indoors and changed his clothes. I was told risk is minimal. I'd be fairly confident you can enjoy your trip to the far. Just don't touch anything that has recently birthed.

Sorry just to add I'm now 27 weeks pregnant

You should be fine. Make sure it’s written into the risk assessment that you won’t enter any lambing sheds (not that there will be much lambing at this time of year) so that staffing ratios can still be maintained.

I'll be 12 weeks exactly when it's our school farm trip - just planning on not touching anything (which is very tricky as I'm always the first one to join in and to help the reluctant or scared children!) 🙈

It’s fine. Just don’t prod the sheep and wash your hands thoroughly.

I'd go but take anti bacterial gel with you. And ensure you wash hands as often as possible.

No problem at all. Just observe good hygiene practices as you would be anyway, there's practically no chance there'll be small lambs around in July. I'd be more worried about it being really hot, or muddy and slippy, than anything else. Have a lovely day out 🙂

@elliesmommy makes a good point, if there's small calves or piglets around you don't want to be getting saliva on you but my vet told me it's mainly the birth fluids that carry the risk anyway so if things have got dried up umbilical cords there's no big problem.

Thanks everyone x