Quick! Get rid of your iPhone, it's killing babies! Not really, but one company is promoting its product through this claim.
Two years ago as a bloated, ornery, anxious, expectant mother, I chewed my nails over the health of Scarlett Fetus for nine months. Every precaution was taken to protect Fetus, so you better believe if I had been told my phone was killing my kid it would have been smashed to smithereens.
When it comes to that baby, a pregnant woman is easy to manipulate. The saying should be "a pregnant woman and her money are soon parted" because we're willing to drop a buck on any snake oil that promises to keep our fetus safe. As soon as nesting begins, sanity disappears. Before the baby comes, most mothers have a fully decorated nursery, equipped with all the latest gadgets and a full shelf of baby books directing us on how to keep this kid alive for at least a year.
Even with all this paranoia and propaganda, Scarlett Fetus was lucky to survive because I wasn't protecting her from the iPhone. A new product, Belly Armor, claims fetuses (or is it feti?) are under attack from radiation. Radiation is definitely a danger, but I highly doubt my computers, phone, and microwave are going to zap a fetus brain.
Belly Armor can either be used as a lap blanket or a band that stretches across the tummy. It's woven together using silver fiber, which is supposed to keep my fetus from being swaddled by radio waves.
My cavalier attitude about radiation isn't due to the fact that I'm a whack-job mother, but that science has shown that we are constantly bombarded with some form of radiation. To truly protect your baby, mama would need to drench herself in silver fibers 24/7. If these fibers came in a full-body spandex outfit you could count me in, but so far all Belly Armor has is a band.
An article by "Time" hit the nail on the head after speaking with the World Health Organization and U.S. doctors. Basically, Belly Armor knows a sucker is born every minute and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Time Magazine's article:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2015829,00.html
Belly Armor:
