Can Mobile Phones Be A Health Risk In Pregnancy?

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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.
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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 SARs 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
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• 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 2nd and 18th 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 low motor skills
  at 3 years, as compared to those of you who are
  the non-users.

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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 phones speaker mode on, while you are
  taking a call. You might alternately use the
  headset while speaking with someone over the
  phone.

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• 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 which are close to the belly.
• Also, try not to keep your cell phone under your
  pillow, when you are asleep.

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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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