Cook your fetus in the jacuzzi?

[Moon]

Hey all- chow if necessary, but I searched and was unable to find anything.

The ladies in my office told me that pregnant ladies should not go into hot tubs because they could cook their baby while it is still inside them.

It sounds like an UL to me. However, I stay as far away from babies and baby-lore as possible, so what do I know?

Thanks!

[justusfour]

While it's advised pregnant women not use hottubs (at least my OB advised me of that through both of my pregnancies) I don't think it's quite hot enough to 'cook' a fetus. I think it just raises the temperature of the mother's body to an unhealthy level for the fetus to deal with.

[Moon]

Thank you, justusfour. That sounds a bit more reasonable.

[Squishy0405]

webpage backing justusfour up: Babycenter article
If you do a search for "hot tub" on the main page of Babycenter, this is the first one in the list of many more. Here I was thinking the air bubbles were dangerous...wait...that's only during oral sex right?

[franjava]

Same reason that children under 12 really shouldn't use a hot tub. Along with the raise in body temp, it also lowers your blood pressure. My friend with extremely low BP cannot use hot tubs or she passes out.

[kismet]

My OB said that if you are healthy with normal blood pressure and the pregnancy is normal, you would probably be uncomfortable if the hot tub was hot enough to harm a second trimester fetus, and you would definitely jump out of a tub hot enough to harm a third trimester fetus. But, since a small risk of harming the pregnancy is still unaceptable, most pregnant women are advised against hot tubs. Just like you probably won't run into tainted sushi in a lifetime of eating it, but still don't risk it during pregnancy.

[Nonny Mouse]

It seems to me that water hot enough to actually cook the fetus would also cook the mother.

Nonny

[Ana Ng]

Originally Posted by Nonny Mouse

It seems to me that water hot enough to actually cook the fetus would also cook the mother.

Nonny

Nah, babies cook a lot faster.

I lamented to my OB that it sucked you can't use them when you're knocked up and she said that the heat wouldn't harm the fetus and that people are really just afraid you'll get dizzy and fall.

Either way, I've tried it cold and it's very nice- kinda like bathing in seltzer.

[Lainie]

When I was pregnant almost 15 years ago, I was warned not only about jacuzzis/spas, but about saunas, steam rooms, getting the water too hot in my own bathtub, and exercising in very hot weather. All, I was told, posed the risk of raising my core body temperature, which could harm the fetus.

I also knew a very physically active couple who were shocked, shocked when the wife went into premature labor at 7 months after they spent most of a very hot Saturday (90F) mountain biking.

Of course, this was the same woman who injured the ligaments in her pelvis earlier in her pregnancy by climbing onto a large rock and jumping several feet off it onto the ground.

[Nick Theodorakis]

Maternal hyperthermia has been linked to neural tube defects (such as spina bifida) in experimental models and in retrospective studies in humans.

Hyperthermia and pregnancy.

Nick

[Kitsune27]

Why would you want to cook your fetus in a hot tub ? A kettle works so much better. Besides, I imagine getting the carrots and onions out of the fliter woud be such a hassle.

Sorry, I'll go stand in the corner now.

[inkrose115]

Originally Posted by Kitsune27

Why would you want to cook your fetus in a hot tub ? A kettle works so much better. Besides, I imagine getting the carrots and onions out of the fliter woud be such a hassle.

Sorry, I'll go stand in the corner now.

Darnit! YOMANK, and I feel guilty now. I love dark humor, but I always feel bad about laughing at it.

[Beastly Despot]

I don't know about a fetus, but I thought it would be a great idea to cook and eat the placenta of my first born.



It wasn't good.

[franjava]

Originally Posted by Beastly Despot

I don't know about a fetus, but I thought it would be a great idea to cook and eat the placenta of my first born.



It wasn't good.

I wasn't even allowed to SEE my placenta let alone attempt to eat it!!


And, Kitsune, I like my fetus made into dumplings.

[Beastly Despot]

Originally Posted by franjava

I wasn't even allowed to SEE my placenta let alone attempt to eat it!!

That's the beauty of homebirth.


Don't get me started.

I think instead of warning pregnant women about hot tubs, they should warn the non-pregnant ones about them. Sex in a hot tub has led to many of the latter becoming the former.

Originally Posted by Bombfixer

I think instead of warning pregnant women about hot tubs, they should warn the non-pregnant ones about them. Sex in a hot tub has led to many of the latter becoming the former.

C'mon if its hot enough to cook a fetus its hot enough to boil an egg.

got it

[Bassist]

Originally Posted by Penguin

C'mon if its hot enough to cook a fetus its hot enough to boil an egg.

got it

But doesn't that make them taste better?

Seriously - as much fun as such activities may be, the longer a male spends in a hot tub, the less sperm cells would be viable. There's a reason that his testes are not nestled deep inside his body where they would be safer from stray baseballs, etc.

"Same reason that children under 12 really shouldn't use a hot tub."

Bull, I've seen children as young as 6 stay in hot-tubs for as long as 4 hours. Besides, what makes a hot-tub different than a bath? The "air bubbles of death"?