3G Pitches - Are they Safe ?
I suppose we assume extensive health & safety testing is done prior to a product/material entering the open market...
but - these research articles indicate to me that there are serious questions :
https://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/is-artificial-turf-hiding-an-800-pound-gorilla.html
the following site http://www.technicalsurfaces.co.uk/3G_pitch_safety_in_the_UK lists the following research which would take an age to go through - although I see the first article is about groundwater runoff so nothing about human health
http://www.technicalsurfaces.co.uk/sites/default/files/agp_-_listing_of_independent_research_and_reports_1998-2014_-_artificial_grass.pdf
Tuesday 23 February 2016
Pregnant with Twins ? Put your Feet up !
If you are pregnant with twins - or more ! then I say stop try and stop working as early as possible - I think 29 weeks is when you can start maternity leave, and take lots of rest. Or if you are still feeling physically comfortable at work and are not being overworked then maybe you will be OK. But please read on and consider what happened to me.
I had twins quite a number of years ago now. (I finally have time to take a rest and write a blog post !!) I stopped at 29 weeks, for a number of reasons. Firstly, I was working on a temporary project so I didn't really have a job to go back to, so there was not much point in working right up to the date I was due etc. It was also becoming increasingly uncomfortable to do the 30 mile car journey every day. And it was high summer so the heat was also getting hard to take.
So I stopped work. And another thing that happened towards the end of my pregnancy was that I got a very painful trapped nerve or sciatica type thing in my leg. And the only way to relieve it was to rest or lie on the couch for a large part of the day. I could usually manage to stand up for an hour or so to go out for lunch or shopping or whatever but I had to rest for the bulk of the day.
The other thing was that I worked in a hospital and had ready access to books about "having twins" from the medical library. I discovered that in America, the mums were very much recommended to take a lot of rest. But I didn't hear this at all from the doctors I saw here in the UK.
And I don't know if the extra rest helped, but of the six mums in my town who were all (by sheer chance) expecting twins in the same week, I was the only one who made it to "term", which for twins is 38 weeks. I had to be induced at that point as the babies were no longer growing etc and the placenta was no longer helping them.
Some of the other families ended up in hospital for a month etc in the special care baby unit. I ended up there for a week, but really we were very lucky that they weren't early, with all the health problems etc that that can involve. I did find out that as I had one who was lying breach, the new recommendations are that I should have had a caesarian and I sort of think that might have been good as you always wonder if the second twin out maybe loses out on oxygen etc...
However I am being sidetracked !
I had twins quite a number of years ago now. (I finally have time to take a rest and write a blog post !!) I stopped at 29 weeks, for a number of reasons. Firstly, I was working on a temporary project so I didn't really have a job to go back to, so there was not much point in working right up to the date I was due etc. It was also becoming increasingly uncomfortable to do the 30 mile car journey every day. And it was high summer so the heat was also getting hard to take.
So I stopped work. And another thing that happened towards the end of my pregnancy was that I got a very painful trapped nerve or sciatica type thing in my leg. And the only way to relieve it was to rest or lie on the couch for a large part of the day. I could usually manage to stand up for an hour or so to go out for lunch or shopping or whatever but I had to rest for the bulk of the day.
The other thing was that I worked in a hospital and had ready access to books about "having twins" from the medical library. I discovered that in America, the mums were very much recommended to take a lot of rest. But I didn't hear this at all from the doctors I saw here in the UK.
And I don't know if the extra rest helped, but of the six mums in my town who were all (by sheer chance) expecting twins in the same week, I was the only one who made it to "term", which for twins is 38 weeks. I had to be induced at that point as the babies were no longer growing etc and the placenta was no longer helping them.
Some of the other families ended up in hospital for a month etc in the special care baby unit. I ended up there for a week, but really we were very lucky that they weren't early, with all the health problems etc that that can involve. I did find out that as I had one who was lying breach, the new recommendations are that I should have had a caesarian and I sort of think that might have been good as you always wonder if the second twin out maybe loses out on oxygen etc...
However I am being sidetracked !
- This blog post is firstly a plea to mums and dads and everyone connected with pregnant mums to make sure the pregnant mum takes it easy and can get some rest. Especially if expecting twins or more.
- And secondly, we really do need to have longer maternity leave and pay for twin/triplet mums as its harder work beforehand when you are pregnant and then it gets even harder as you have to care for two tiny tots and make sure they are fed etc.
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