Pat

This has been on my mind for a while and didn’t really know where to express myself, so I figured this would be the best place — here goes..

Seeing we have a 10month old baby girl and using a 2.4GHz video baby monitor I’ve been asking myself that exact question.

The monitor was positioned, from her birth up until today, around 3ft from her mounted on the wall. Today I moved it to the opposite wall, which is about 11ft away. To be honest it still doesn’t sit well and I’m thinking about getting rid of it; perhaps I’ll just buy a 900MHz video monitor.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and simply cannot come to a conclusion. There doesn’t seem to be enough data out there as this technology is fairly new. Just because something is sold at a big chain doesn’t mean it’s OK.

Look at cigarettes, they’re everywhere. Think about when everyone used to smoke, and it was even allowed on airplanes — now you can barely smoke outside a public building.

What do I think you ask. I believe they’re dangerous, period. I don’t want to find out 5-10 years from now that people who used to use 2.4GHz+ (or DECT) baby monitors have increased the chances of (insert one of many diseases here) in their children — would you?

Just to add, please keep your babies away from cell phones, and for the love stop buying your kids cell phone. A child’s skull doesn’t fully develop before they’re 21 years old and will absorb an unsafe amount of radiation. Unfortunately I feel we’re going to have a epidemic on our hands in a few years which is caused by cell phones. I recall reading somewhere it’s going to be around 2030. Makes me really sad that our desire to advance technologically is going to hurt some of us.

Ok, I’m done. It’s late, I’m tired and I’ve already made countless corrections.

Additional reading

http://www.emfacts.com/papers/rncnirp_children.pdf

http://www.emfacts.com/papers/dect.pdf

Please feel free to comment. I’d really like to know what you think.