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Re: Pregnant Welders

I'd only be concerned if the instructor was married, not to the student, but the father of the fetus.

All kidding aside, anyone welding, grinding, painting or doing anything that puts their noggin into fumes needs to be wearing proper protection.

Some stuff can kill you in seconds and others in days, years or even decades.

Many of us old timers have probably shaved years off of our lives not knowing this years ago. Today there's no excuse to be ignorant. Get and always use the best you can.

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by whtbaron

My first job when I was 15 was slinging eggs in a chicken barn with a half a million birds in several structures. I worked with 3 young women that were sisters/inlaws and they worked slinging crates of eggs ( I think that was 5 flats of 30 eggs) .... sometimes over their heads... until the day they went to the hospital to give birth. One had 12 kids, one had 8 and one had 3. Those "kids" are all in their 40's now and doing fine. When I think of the noise, stress, disease pressures, manure gases in those barns, not to mention the heavy lifting, I can't see a welding site is any worse. The next time this thread gets resurrected those kids just might be coming back to give you a piece of their mind too...

Ain't that the truth, bunch of freeking sissies around here, one of the things I don't miss about working is listening to grown men (and I use that term loosely) cry about the job or conditions, stupid fact of many I was in a sub level basement with a couple diesel combos and a loader running along with the welding and lead pots burning, when they saw me with a smoke in my mouth they had puppies, ficker wasn't even lit, true story, people are fuching idiots and only react to the false facts some uniformed moron taught them

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by docwelder

no way no how. fu@k what the doctors say. medical opinions change like the wind. god forbid my old woman had to work as a welder i wouldn't want her exposed to all those uv rays while expecting. my kids are screwed up enough as is

how would/do you feel about yourself, not to metion" your/anybodys pregnant wife" having to go through TSA Xray, to fly?

Re: Pregnant Welders

My first job when I was 15 was slinging eggs in a chicken barn with a half a million birds in several structures. I worked with 3 young women that were sisters/inlaws and they worked slinging crates of eggs ( I think that was 5 flats of 30 eggs) .... sometimes over their heads... until the day they went to the hospital to give birth. One had 12 kids, one had 8 and one had 3. Those "kids" are all in their 40's now and doing fine. When I think of the noise, stress, disease pressures, manure gases in those barns, not to mention the heavy lifting, I can't see a welding site is any worse. The next time this thread gets resurrected those kids just might be coming back to give you a piece of their mind too...

Re: Pregnant Welders

no way no how. fu@k what the doctors say. medical opinions change like the wind. god forbid my old woman had to work as a welder i wouldn't want her exposed to all those uv rays while expecting. my kids are screwed up enough as is

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by Broccoli1

No more than any other student:

Keep yer head outta da fumes
Don't catch on fire
etc
etc.

My wife welded during the pregnancy of both our chillins- hmmm they are kinda whacko but that may just be the genes

Same concerns and we got our Dr's approval.

No kidding, Ed. Or it could just be overexposure to Broccoli.

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by ol' Stick Guy

Hmmm lets see EMFs, Arsenic, Sulphur-Dioxide, Ultraviolet radiation, Metal Fume Fever (from welding on galvanizied and Cadmium-plated pieces) not to mention epoxy primers and metal born toxins (leads, aluminum, etc.) absolutely not unless you live in like Texas (right to work states).

DANG, i never wore a respirator when welding around all that stuff and its never effected, effected, effected, me!

Re: Pregnant Welders

The original poster hasn't been here in 10 years and the kid is in fifth grade now provided it survived the welding fumes.

Re: Pregnant Welders

How long did she stay at work for? Did she have any work restrictions?? Asking for....myself...

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by rad3766

I'm gonna assume you're single......or divorced

I’d put my money on divorced lol

Re: Pregnant Welders

I taught my kids to weld in kindergarten.

Re: Pregnant Welders

So the simease twins are three now.......How are they,it,him,her, doing?????

Re: Pregnant Welders

You know this thread is from 2009 Right?

Re: Pregnant Welders

Get doctor's approval first. She might be hypersensitive to a certain thing.

Re: Pregnant Welders

Just make sure she doesn't get zapped while weldiing. Everyone knows thats how cojoined twins are fused together

Re: Pregnant Welders

Still no pics... I guess it's not that kind of site. too bad could be "different".

Re: Old Pregnant Welders

Interesting original post, but as someone a year ago pointed out, the baby would be 2 years old, so the baby is 3 years old.
In a couple of years, the kid will be holding a MIG gun.

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by Stack of Dimes

What? Does she think there's gonna be some requirement to weld in the kitchen while she's getting me a beer and making me a sammich?? She's gonna get her bare feet burned doing that!

Tell the little gal she needs to worry about the little things, like how much mayo to put on and if there's enough brewskis in the fridge for when the fellas come over after work to watch the game.

lol, anyman who thinks a womans place is in the kitchen obviously doesn't know what to do with them in the bedroom.


but back on topic here, why doesn't the student just go to the doctor and ask what the dangers are, and how safe it would be while she's pregnant? Or why doesn't she herself learn what the dangers are?

Re: Pregnant Welders

I suspect there has already been too much time spent around a live wire and TOO much magnetism. "Ba, Dum, BUM"

"DOH" just noticed OLD TREAD shoot.

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by imc188222

and to think I opened this looking for pictures....I kid

To be honest, I think most everyone here was expecting pictures when they first read the title.

Re: Pregnant Welders

and to think I opened this looking for pictures....I kid

Re: Pregnant Welders

Ask a doctor and see what they have to say on the subject matter.

Re: Pregnant Welders

I am currently in the same boat with a female that works for me. New to welding but shows alot of potential, scored a 96 for her first time on the Lincoln Vertex, fresh air hood recomended by everyone?

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by Rottguinness

The thing that is dangerous to the fetus...

Wasn't he Marshal Dillon's sidekick in Gunsmoke?

And thanks Stack of Dimes for the hardest laugh I had all day! On both of your posts!

Re: Pregnant Welders

Originally Posted by Rottguinness

The thing that is dangerous to the fetus are teratogens. Basically, A teratogen is anything that is labled (Known to the state of Calif. to cause birth defects). It causes a chromasomal problem typicaly 31-71 days gestation. My advice is tell her to come back in 9 months and learn to weld.

Rott

Two years old now.