Believe it or not, all you think, feel and do during the pregnancy is affecting the health and growth of your baby. This is the reason why the safe cleaning of your home during the pregnancy will have an extreme value for the well being of both of you. And even though every housewife considers that she knows if not everything, at least most of the tricks for a perfect cleaning and maintenance of their homes, during the 9 months before delivering a baby, there are some facts that must not be missed.
Keeping your home clean and neat, may turn out to be a real challenge – in the first three months of the pregnancy you would appear to be in a real battle with the morning sickness and you will end up getting exhausted of even the easiest tasks. Once you start feeling better in the second trimester, you r growing belly will start stopping you from being energetic and flexible. In the third trimester of your pregnancy you would be simply forces to minimise your participation in the house work and to use most of the time relaxing. This is the reason why, once you realise that you are pregnant, you must prepare а pregnancy claning plan, which you should strictly follow, in order the desired results to be achieved.
Take precautions – always, when you start with the cleaning during a pregnancy, you must put rubber gloves on, long sleeve tops, long trousers and socks on. Preferably you can also put a cheesecloth mask on, in order to avoid breathing in poisonious detergents and microbes. Always remember that the skin appears to be a protective barrier against many solutions, and the chemicals, that come into contact with it, can be absorbed, go into your blood and respectively affect the baby.
Choose your cleaning products carefully – try to choose only eco-friendly and non-toxic detergents. It is clear that all the cleaning solutions are having chemical ingredients, in order to kill the micro-organisms and dissolve the grime. However if not carefully selected and if not proved to be safe, they can turn into a potential threat for your health and have horrible consequencеs, such as being the reason for a miscarriage. In order to protect yourself and your future child, you would need to make a careful and detailed sellection and also check presisly all the lables of the solutions you are buying.
Airine while you are cleaning – make sure that your home has a good ventilation while you are cleaning. Avoid spending loats of time in a narrow, airless premisses. The wide open windows will speed up the airining of the whole property and will not only give it a fresh smell, but will also will alow the poisonous particles be spreaded out. If for example you are cleaning the bathroom and there is no window that could be open, you can simply leave the door open and the windows in the rest of the house wide opened. Airining is also extremly importaint when cleaning, as the different smells, may easily make you feel nauseated and retch.
Ask someone else to take care of the pets – if you are curious whether it is safe to keep a pet indoors, while you are pregnant, the answer is “Yes”. The only issue is that during the pregnancy it is not recommendable you to be the person cleaning their litter box, as there might be variety of microbes, which might cause bacterial infections, such as toxoplasmosis.
Pay some special attention to the dust – it is considered as one of the main causes for allergies, asthma and other health issue.
Ask for professional help – you should also considered the option of hiring a cleaner to help you cleaning your home at least 1-2 times per month. This actually would be of a big help to you and wouldn’t be critical for the family budget. In this way, you could take care of the smaller tasks and leave the heavier duties to a professional cleaner. If any way you are not able to afford a cleaner to visit your property, you can ask some of your relatives or your partner/ husband help.
Giving birth can be assumed as one of the greatest miracles in life, and so it is all in your hands to take the needed matters for welcoming the newborn in its safe and cosy new home.