I’m feeling so very helpless about now.
It’s just so tough to watch my wife struggle with being at the end of her pregnancy as we enter the hottest month of the summer.
This was not what we had planned by any measure. First, we so didn’t want to get pregnant to where she had to carry our child through the summer. Where we live, summer is tough enough even with great central air conditioning. But carrying a child magnifies those problems many fold. The whole idea was to wait a while for the years of birth control to leave her system and then conceive toward the middle of summer. That would put the toughest months of the pregnancy in our ultra mild winter. The heat pump is pretty much dormant all winter since there really isn’t a whole lot of need for HVAC heating during our winter. But sure enough, my wife got pregnant just weeks after she stopped taking the pill. How’s that for timing? When we first heard, we were of course overjoyed at our good fortune. But we also quickly did the math and both looked at each other knowing that the toughest part of the pregnancy would be in the worst of our already brutal summer. Then, the doctor ordered my wife to bed as she was having some complications. So there was no working inside the zone controlled HVAC of her office until she was ready to deliver. Not only could she not work, she was stuck in bed. At least we have great HVAC cooling in our home. Plus, there is a smart thermostat that allows my wife to remotely adjust the thermostat setting.
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