to worry about the effect wifi / mobile signals have on my unborn child?

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22 weeks pregnant. Hormonal. Google addict. Sums me up pretty accurately about now.

Anyway, having googled about the effects of wifi and mobile signals on an unborn child I have stumbled across some scary articles (some more trustworthy than others).

This one was particularly scary

ecodynamiclivingsolutions.com/the-most-toxic-thing-to-your-pregnancy-that-you-completely-ignore/

I'm trying to limit my mobile use and we always turn our wifi off but there are 6-10 other signals around my house so not sure what the point is. Also loads at my place of work.

Am I being unreasonable to worry about the effects all these signals may have on my baby, now and after it is born?

Isnt the Ramazzini Institute the one that supposedly linked Splenda to cancer but their studies were completely flawed?

Agree with Trills that you need to be uber-sceptical about the internet, and increasingly with published material

My own personal favourite pseudo-science/ apparent truth was in the "Skinny Bitch" diet book which stated that dairy makes you fat. Look at the evidence. It grows a 90lb calf into a 2000lb cow. Um..........

I don't think very much microwave radiation will reach your baby. It is absorbed by water, where it turns into heat energy. Your tissues will absorb the tiny amount that reaches your body. The unmeasurably small temperature rise will easily be dealt with by your body's own regulatory methods.

Of the electromagnetic spectrum, microwaves are at the 'safer' end.

Good lord. Tbh sounds as though your child is more likely to develop rickets than 3 heads.

Chill.

I used to be responsible for health and safety in my workplace. This was, well a lot of years ago, when the DSE regulations came in.

Do you know any pregnant woman has a right not to work on a computer? Her employer has to find alternative work.

Have you ever heard of a miscarriage brought on by a computer? I thought not. But at the time there was a scare so it was put into the law.

I've just had a look at the report they refer to - the increased risk is tiny, and from analogue phones used over years, in Sweden - we have been using digital for how long?

Non ironising radiation comes from things like light. Are you limitting your exposure to light? What about TV? Static?

Please try not to worry. The iternet is wonderful but with more kranks than scientists.

On another website someone posted that they would not eat pre packed salad because it is packaged with nitrogen and how terrible that was. Most of what we breathe is nitrogen, it is normal and harmless, but someone had written a scare story about it.

There are lots of environmental risks to us all, unfortunately. Autism is thought to be genetic plus environmental. I often wonder what, if anything was the trigger for my dd's.

It comes down to the point that none of us can keep our kids in a plastic bubble but just limit exposure to chemicals etc where possible.

Try to enjoy your pregnancy.

If you were genuinely worried you would have to do a lot more than turn YOUR phone & wireless off. As others have pointed out it's hard to avoid unless you are going to live somewhere very remote & then who knows.

I used to worry if there was a microwave in my neighbours place near where my bed was (i.e. was my brain resting near an active microwave - in houses converted to flats there may well be a kitchen the other side of the wall). Oh dear I have other things to focus on now.

If you are really worried you can buy SHIELDING PAINT. Of course them you will never be able to use your phone/wireless in your home again. Not sure how your landlord would feel about it, or what it would do to the value of your home when you went to sell though. I imagine it's a big job to get rid of the paint in later years & you have to do something extra to shield the windows.

We live in an ocean of radiation from a huge number of sources.

Try not to stand in front of a microwave transmitter dish or under the sun for hours and hours and you will very probably survive.