a bit concerned - computer screens, babies and electromagnetic radiation?

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I might be being silly over this, but I saw/read something today which made me wonder. We have a one-bedroom flat, the computer is in the living room and when we're at home it's basically on all day, for my work, dh's work and relaxing (and MN ). ds's play corner is in the opposite corner of the room, but I VERY often feed him sitting at the computer, and dh sometimes sits there when cuddling/comforting ds. He's certainly 50cm away from it, but probably not quite 1m. I read something today about what the Germans call 'electro smog' from monitors and it being dangerous, potentially carcinogenic and melatonin-suppressing, and it got me thinking. Am I doing/have I done ds any harm with this? Would miss my MNing feeding sessions, but ds comes first

jeeeeez, I hope not . have done plenty of bfing while MNing.

afaik the only dangerous emissions from a monitor is the elctromagnetic radiation - every electrical appliance gives this off, but obviously you don't usually sit with you head 50cm away from the tumble drier for very long.

evidence about it is rather variable, but enough to make me think about the type of monitor I use - newer lower power ones are supposedly safer.

I could be talking about something entirely different of course. will look it up later.

I think the safe distance from the front of a modern monitor is 12 inches

and the back and sides emit more and there it is considered 40 inches

there was a lot of hype about this in the early 80s, but it all died down a bit. Think of the loads of babies that have been born after their mothers sat in front of a monitor for 9 months!

hmmmm, spent most of second and third pregnancy infront of compters. both younger kids fed inf ront of computer. computer in their room. now it is ds1's room. its on all the time. his head is less than a metre from the side of the monitor.

maybe we should tur n this machine of sometimes.

thanks for replies.
our monitor is new (less than a year old) but relatively cheap and simple.
AFAIK it's supposed to be safe in pg, but I was wondering whether it's different when the baby is born and its position (patticularly the head) is necessarily closer to the monitor and without the barrier of the mother's body iyswim.

Stitch IKWYM about needing to turn it off sometimes - we don't have a television and sometimes feel all virtuous about it - but prob a lot of the time we would otherwise watch TV we spend on the net!

Any more ideas/views on the 'electro-smog'?