Can Mobile Phones Be A Health Risk In Pregnancy?

Pregnancy is that time of your life when you need to be extra careful about your health and the well-being of the baby cuddled up inside you. You should be aware of what you eat and how you change your lifestyle. Even the minutest things matter a lot during pregnancy. So are Using mobile phones during pregnancy. You surely need mobile phones to talk to your friends, other family members, and also your healthcare practitioner during this time. But you also need to be a little careful while you are using it. As it may not impact your baby inside positively.

What are the Side Effects of Using Mobile Phones During Pregnancy? 

Mobile phones emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. Electromagnetic radiation is a kind of non-ionizing radiation. These are low levels of energy waves, which may affect your eyes. However, most of the cell phones’ radiation is rated by SAR (Specific absorption rate). The higher the SAR’s value, the more the radiation of the mobile phone. Your baby may remain inside your womb surrounded by a protective shield of the placenta – which nourishes the developing baby inside the womb with all-essential oxygen and nutrients and removes the waste materials, but the radiation of mobile phones may cause certain problems. The problems include:

• Exposure to this kind of radiation may not positively affect your activities in the brain, disrupt your sleep, and give rise to fatigue. Along with this, unborn babies are specifically sensitive to the cancer-causing effects of radiation. 

• During the early stages of pregnancy, especially during the 2^nd and 18^th week, the foetus is particularly sensitive to mobile radiation. Damage of even one cell of the foetus, during the early stage of pregnancy, would mean the death of the embryo or miscarriage. 

• Going deeper, exposure to such radiation may result in a shorter duration of pregnancy, preterm birth, low birth weight, or large birth weight babies. 

• It is also noteworthy that due to overexposure to mobile phones during pregnancy, you might end up suffering from ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and there are chances that you may pass it down to your little one inside your womb. 

• Studies have also revealed that children of 17% of you using mobile phones have the risk of low sentence complexity as well as soft motor skills at 3 years, as compared to those of you who are the non-users.

How To Use Cell Phones During Pregnancy?

You just need some extra precautions during pregnancy while you are using mobile phones, to keep you and your baby safe. The precautions include:  

• If you are using your mobile, try to keep it a few feet away.
  
• Keep your phone’s speaker mode while you are taking a call. You might alternately use the headset while speaking with someone over the phone.
  
• If you feel the call is urgent – maybe you have got a call from your doctor or a friend or relative, keep the call as short as possible.
  
• Reduce your screen time.
  
• Try not to carry your mobile phones inside your pockets if the pockets are close to your baby bump.
  
• Also, try not to keep your cell phone under your pillow, when you are asleep.

These days, smartphones have become an integral part of life. You must keep your phone close to you even during pregnancy for your urgent requirements. But taking the side effects into consideration use mobile phones as less as possible. Instead of using mobile phones, you can take to creative writing, yoga, meditation as well as gardening.

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