I'm an experienced property developer, and my husband and I have been renovating the house we live in, which was massively dilapidated when we bought it (doing all the work ourselves) for quite a long time now, and are finally reaching the end of a very long slog, with only the downstairs decorating remaining. We have a three month old son, and I was hoping to paint bit by bit whilst he has his naps (he's a good sleeper so this seemed pretty feasible) as we still have bare unsealed plaster, unpainted new wood on the skirting boards, as well as some old lead paint around the door frames. This isn't just a vanity/interior design thing, I'm actually desperate to get it all done before he starts crawling - for his own safety as much as anything as bare plaster is pretty dusty, and the lead paint needs encapsulating with new paint, and its just really hard to keep everything clean the way things are at the moment. I'm a materials scientist by training, so I'm quite well versed on chemicals etc and had bought minimal VOC eco paint, everything is water based, windows open, not taking him in rooms that have been painted etc so didn't think there would be any issues with safety, and got started about a week ago. But DS seems really unsettled all of this week, and now I'm wondering if maybe its the paint fumes? I can't really smell anything, and as I say, the paints are supposed to be safe. So just wondering what others think? He's 14 weeks old this week (was two weeks premature) and I know that this is a time where babies have some pretty big developmental leaps which can upset them. But i've gone from having a really happy baby who never really cried, to having a little man who is breaking down into fits of sobbing for no apparent reason. Could it be the paint, of is it just a coincidence? And if it is the paint, how on earth can we avoid exposing him to it when we have to get the work done? We can't really afford to get the decorators in, and even if we did, I don't have anywhere to move out to so even with decorators doing the work, we'd still need to be at home most of the time. Its not a case of