Pregnancy and microwaves: how safe are they together?
The short answers to this seems to be that microwaves are safe to use during pregnancy.
Many sites get into describing the science behind how microwaves work and that gets my mind a wanderin' off to the theme of Oklahoma. Electromagnetic radiation that causes electromagnetic fields (EMF) and non-ionizing radiation (versus ionizing radiation like x-rays) are the terms that are being tossed around. There is a little talk about being careful about microwaves that leak but I got the impression that even leaking ones don't pose much of a threat.
The better-safe-than-sorry party line suggests walking away while the microwave is on. I suggest you make dinner reservations for 40 weeks and screw cooking all together, you know, just to be on the safe side.
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Apparently there's a camp of people saying that radiation from your cell phone could cause problems, so my husband won't let me play Angry Birds on my phone anymore. A bit curious about that one!
Microwaves come with a warning in the manual and some are on the back of the microwave telling us not to stand in front of microwave when cooking. Especially if "you are pregnant" as it "may cause mutations".
Yeah, people tease me about my extra arm all the time. It isn't my fault, Mom ate microwave mac-n-cheese a few times a week when she was pregnant with me!