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My OB told me that most standard latex paints today have a low enough VOC content that it really isn't a big deal as long as you aren't locking yourself in a closed room and I was welcome to help my DH. We went with the Sherwin-Williams Duration paint for the nursery and I look forward to painting tomorrow. We've been doing a lot of home improvement including a bathroom remodel that I've been around.
Um, you're pregnant?! :) Congrats! (I'm a regular blog follower.)
As for paint and just about everything else, you get a million different opinions. One blog I like is this one: http://pregnantchicken.squarespace.com/blog-archives/
@candicemcc:oh, yea, right, SSSSSSHHHHHH. I'm only five weeks (six next week) and we decided not to tell our families until Christmas, so mum's the word. Well, except I told some bee friends and posted here earlier asking when people tell their workplace and pretty quickly dropped the hypothical, "See, I have this friend...." :)
OHMYGOD so many opinions. SO many. I'm sticking to only a couple of pregnancy books so I don't have to mediate between too many conflicting opinions (one by Mayo, and Body, Soul, Baby - which is awesome) but just figuring out if I can paint with no-VOC paint is driving me batty! Thanks for the blog link.
Ahhh, congrats!!!!!! I'm a blog reader too... so happy for you! I've loved following your blog, as I feel like we are in the same stages a lot of time. Except I'm a few months away from starting to "try" to have a baby. But have felt the same way as you... recently ready to start thinking about it! LOL!
You should be fine, but if you are going to help, I would wear a mask just in case. The masks are sold at the same place you get your paint. About the eating, when I was pregnant, I ate anything that I felt like eating and my kids turned out just fine. Honestly, if I saw all the commercials about the bad things for pregnant and nursing moms that are on these days back when I had my kids, I would have been too afraid to have any kids. As long as you use common sense, you will be fine.
We used the Home Depot's low-VOC brand, I think it's called Fresh Aire. Anyway, the doctor said that was fine, but if the fumes make me feel nauseous, I should wear a mask.
I personally wouldn't be comfortable painting with anything but zero-VOC paints while pregnant. We used Mythic paint for our nursery and you couldn't smell anything. The furniture we bought had more of an odor than the paint!
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I'm driving myself a bit crazy trying to figure out if I can help my husband paint our second house. We are *so* close to finishing the thing and putting it on the market, but there's a (new) second bathroom to be primed and painted, plus touch-up work needed on the bathroom and kitchen.
Is low/ No-VOC latex paint fine, or no? I'm curious to hear what your doctors told you versus all of the stuff I'm finding as I research online. I'll call mine tomorrow.
Yeesh. I'm a week into this and feeling like suddenly the world is a rather dangerous place. At our Christmas Block Party yesterday, I stalked the other pregnant woman so I could just eat what she ate (this is her second child - but we haven't told anyone, so I couldn't ask)!