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I was going to do some indoor painting today and I was wondering if it is ok for me to throw my 1 year old daughter into her backpack while I do it. I would open all of the doors/windows in the room while I was painting.
Does this seem safe or would it be better to find somewhere else for her to hang out?
The US EPA recommends keeping young children from freshly painted rooms.
I would look into paints that off-gas fewer chemicals if I were to paint around a baby or young toddler. You can find several. Here is a list of five and here is a Consumer Reports comparison.
Purely anecdotally my mother threw me into a backpack to paint our home when I was a baby and I don't think it had any lasting negative impacts, but one instance does not make solid data.
