Help! I'm melting!

[MummaD123]

I'm 25 weeks pregnant and this heat is starting to get to me! I'm drinking plenty of water, I've got fans on, floaty dresses to help.

Any other recommendations?

Freeze a couple of flannels and put them on your wrists and ankles. Cools you down pretty much instantly.

Keep the house cool by keeping blinds & windows closed if the sun is shining on them & then opening them about this time.

Someone I knew once out her wet knickers in the freezer before wearing them, when she was heavily pregnant in a heatwave

Sounded very refreshing!

I'm 29 weeks and also really struggling, my feet and ankles are so swollen and I have things to do so can't just lounge around

I’m genuinely wearing a wet dress and sat in front of a fan and it has worked!

31 weeks, sitting in front of a fan, cannot see need to go outside. Froze a bottle of water last night and slept with it. That was quite nice.

Soak your feet into some nice cold water! I am currently 37+3 and have really struggled today. Ended up lying down and napping all afternoon and didn’t feel great for it so got up, had a cold shower and then have been soaking my feet in cold water on and off since. It is really refreshing I have also been drinking bottles and bottles of water all day so try and stay hydrated too!

If you can afford it, buy a portable air conditioning unit.

Before I finished work for mat leave last summer (WFH) I set up a table and chairs in DS' paddling pool and did as much work as I could outdoors with my feet in the nice cold water.

Bucket of ice water and dunk your feet in it: bliss