electric current during pregnancy - views wanted

[lostinparis]

I'd be interested if anyone has any views/similar experience on the following as I have asked my Dr about it and she thinks that maybe I have a point but just does not know the answer (there may not be one):
I had a missed m/c. It happened at 9.5 weeks (on basis of when seen on ultrasound and size). At 9.5 weeks I went had a facial (I did not know I was pregnant at the time) and during this facial there were two sets of 10 minutes during which I held a metal "thing" and the beautician massaged my face with metal "things". All the "things" are attached to a machine and basically it sends a low voltage electric current (I think it is called a cathiodermie treatment - all very nice under any other circumstances).
As an aside I have some weighing scales which have a warning on them saying not to use during pregnancy (so I have not used them since we started trying for a baby) - I understand the reason is that to give you your fat index the scales send a small electric current.
So.......I wonder whether such a facial treatment could stop a pregnancy. So far I haven't found anything on the net re this (however it seems electric shock can + some link to electromagnetic fields e.g. with electric blankets). If so, I think it is a real pity that women are not warned before such facials. Does anyone have any views/experience re all this?

[MammyShirl]

hello

i found out i was pregnant with dd when i was 6 weeks pregnant whilst on holiday. week before i went which would of made me 5 weeks pregnant, I was horrified to notice lot of hair sprouting out of my chin, so when I went for a bikini wax I also had a good 20 mins or longer of electrolysis to remove the hair (found out after that in early prenancy you can have sudden hair growth with all the hormones flying about but yu should leave it and it will go by itself.)

the girl who done it must have been into bondage or something as when i had had it don before i hardly felt anything but she had the current up so high (said it would have a better effect) i was holding onto the bed. she done a bad job and all the pores she worked started to bleed i had a chin of scabs!!!

needless to say when i found out i was pregnant i was so scared it would have an effect on the baby - doctors where not much help when i asked.

thankfully my dd is now 15 months is healthy and is a very fast learner so in my case it was ok but i would not do that again before checking to see if i was pregnant just to be sure.

try not to think about it too much, i really dont think your facial was the cause, after all the electric current would have been so small, it's just a circuit thing!

hope this makes you feel better!

[SenoraPostrophe]

I had quite a nasty electric shock from a dodgy cooker when pregnant with dd. It's hard to say how nasty, but it made me yell out in pain. I was terrified at the time as I'd also had a missed m/c a few months previously, but dd is fine.

I think it's possible that the electric thingy you're talking about did have an effect, but perhaps it was only able to have an effect because that baby was not to be anyway?

[mummytosteven]

Hello Lost in Paris. so sorry to hear about your m/c. no personal experience but been googling under electrolysis and pg - presume this would be similar to cathiodermie -

www.babycenter.com/expert/pregnancy/pregnancybeauty/2231.html

this says that electrolysis on your face is fine during pg, but to steer clear of it on your tum!

my opinion is that electricity in a small amount away from your tum is v unlikely to have affected anything.

[wilbur]

lostinparis, I'm so sorry about your m/c. Just to say, I have those electric fat monitor scales too, but mine didn't have a warning on them and I definitely weighed myself when preg with ds at least half a dozen times before someone said I shouldn't, and ds was fine. Also, whenever I have been for a facial, they always ask my if I am or could be pregnant but tell me this is because of the essential oils they use so I don't know about the cathiodermie. I very much doubt the electic current could have had that much of an effect, really, pease don't blame yourself.

[Anchovy]

I touched an electric fence when I was about 20 weeks pregnant w/DD. She is 8 months old and remarkably perky