Hey there,

I'm almost 15 weeks pregnant and I work in a non-traditional female job. DP and I own a property maintenance business. At the moment my job consists of:
*whipper snipping with industrial heavy whipper snipper 3-4 hours a day, 2 days a week
*Pushing a lawn mower 2 hours a day , 2 days a week
*Leaf blowing with industristrial leaf blower 1-2 hours a day, 4 days a week
*Vacuuming many flights of stairs with backpack vacume cleaner 4 hours a day, 3 days a week
*washing windows, other cleaning up to 9 hours a week
*weeding, gardening, picking up sticks, trimming trees up to 8 hours a week
*heavy lifting is a normal part of the day

I have halved the mowing since I have been pregnant.

My previous pregnancy, i went into preterm labour at 22 weeks due to moving a house whilst I had pnuemonia (long story, not my choice) They stopped the labour but I had constant checks and worry for the rest of the pregnancy, a very irritable uterus developed after that.

I am beginning to get concerned as I have noticed in the last 3 weeks increasing amount of BH's during and after work. I am careful not to overdo it, I rest when I need and drink okay, but I'm beginning to realize that my body isn't handling it like it used to, I get extremely tired after work..

So i'm wondering, does anybody know if it's okay to continue this kind of work during pregnancy now that I've reached 2nd trimester? I can't seem to find any information about it bah stuff saying it's okay to mow the lawn every second week, but I can't find any info on someone like me that does it for a living. I can't see my doc for another 2 weeks, and I guess I'm concerned in the meantime. Today was a hard day, I was using the heavy vibrating whipper snipper and leaf blower and I definately have more BHs than I've had yet....I'm scared that I might 'cause' something to happen like last pregnancy.

It's hard, I really do need to work at the moment, it's too much this time of year for DP to do on his own, and hiring someone is not a financial option for us. I actually find vacuuming the flights of stairs waaaaaaay harder than any of the lawn mowing, so because of that I haven't been too concerned.

Any advice?