My wife is currently 16 weeks pregnant.

Just wanna ask if there is a need for this kind of anti-radiation maternity dress?

She works with computer on all the time.

If necessary, where can we get this dress?

I could be wrong but I doubt it is necessary... so many thousand pregnant ladies work with a computer 8 hours a day...

lol...this is funny..but i do understand the dilemma being in your position before...

anyway, there are very radiation exposure nowadays unless your wife are still using CRT type of monitor. LCD monitors does not produce much radiation. Even if she is using CRT monitor, her face would be nearest to the screen. I am sure her belly is far enough to be of any harm. Moreover, her belly will be under the table which is another layer blocking the radiation.

Radiation can come from anywhere la... high tension wire, computer, handphone, aircond room, TNB terminal, etc. And these anti radiation dress dont come cheap. If you feel you need the best to protect your wife and child, ok la.

I have a friend who has to buy everything organic, even nipple cream and have special curtain and special sofa that dust / cotton pieces dont get breathe into the baby lungs... I'm like errr... sure necessary kah?

i once knew someone who was so particular abt all radiations.. she even stopped using HP during pregnancy.. but maybe this is just a bit over...
even without computer & HP, radiation is everywhere.. u cant avoid it unless u live in a cave

here's another perspective, how much protection is needed? Total or balanced?

I always think people should not go overboard on doing something. Need to look at the situation and then assessed. Sometimes 100% and sometimes 50% or sometimes no need to bother.

Here is one example from my real life situation. My friend always have sore throat problem. She cannot take anything spicy or fried. If eat something like KFC...right away or the next day will get sorethroat problem. The reason is because her mother doesn't let her eat those things since childhood. Cause he mother says eating chilly or fried stuffs will cause problems like constipation or sore throat or heat leading to fever and so on. And because of that she sort of developed some sort of inability to copy with fried or spicy food.

The mother never thought of that. You can start taking moderately. Nobody ask you to take like crazy amount. Me on other hand like fried stuffs. I can eat like crazy fried stuffs and seldom have sorethroat. Cause my mom doesn't control my food intact. Nothing wrong eating anything edible.

So my question is, do you want to subject your child or yourself to things that "might" be harmful just because? For example, sun light is also have radiation, you never leave your child out in the sun for even 1 second? Near the sunlight also have radiation. How? Life inside a double layer room forever? How many pregnant mother that you know that is working in the office facing computer nearly 8 hour a day gave birth to a defective baby CONFIRMED due to the radiation? Even if you do decide to get an antiradiation clothing and happy about your child being born normal. What's next? No antibiotics for your child? No TV for your child? No computer for your child?

Say you avoided the baby/fetus from computer radiation, what about sun radiation? TV radiation? Mobilephone radiation? Since you protected the baby from those radiation, would it be possible that the baby will develop some sort of inability to copy with radiation? Later in life when the child is subjected to radiation that is deems low for 99.99% of the people but your child can't take it and got cancer. Whose fault it is?

This post has been edited by abubin: Feb 21 2011, 05:43 PM

I got this recommendation from my colleagues in China.
In China government policy, it is a must-wear for pregnant ladies.
Maybe we Malaysians are still not aware of it?

i would be more worry on wifi in office and mobile phones.

mobile phone lines in their frequencies are active everywhere...
who says wifi got only in office? nowdays almost every restaurant, shop & hotels hv it...

will u just stay at home? even your neighbours will hv wifi... !!

I was on the comp most of the time at work while I was pregnant...and frankly ..i've not heard of it.

To be honest, if the advise is from the US..i'll probably believe it as they are very particular about these kind of health issues..but from China? Probably they are dealing with stuff that emits radiation?? Atomic bomb maybe?

I mean..an advise from a country that caused the melamine tainted milk scare? kekekek..

Just my 2-cents worth.

LOL that is true!

For a moment, I imagined myself pregnant and in a haz-mat suit, sitting in front of the computer, typing etc.

Hmmm...

pregnant ladies are prone to mood swings. besides having such suit protecting the wearer, it also warns the other colleagues about the wearer's potentially "hazardous" behaviour LOL.

LOL... I see, 2-in-1 function... Maybe can have a sign as well, approach with caution!

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There is no need to be over paranoid. But if you want to be. Consider having her properly grounded so that the will be no static charge on here.

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My friend who just had a baby girl 6 months ago went crazy and buy everything organic, changed the curtain to dust free, even buying a cream will be researched in details! Clean freak.

Many elderly people advised that if you are too clean, it also means that you didnt give your body a chance to fight against these viruses, hence you dont have the antibodi and thus give you a higher chance to be prone to sickness.

Yes, I totally agree. I have a cousin who is toooooooooo particular about these kind of stuff when she was pregnant and after..and mind you..her kids are easily prone to sickness