Are wireless baby monitors a good choice to help keep your child safe while you are out of the room? What about digital or video-based monitors? Well, consider this…
If a mobile phone company applied for a permit to install a cell tower next to a school in your community, do you think there would be a large public outcry?
Most likely there would be very vocal outrage from the surrounding neighborhoods and the story would be featured prominently in the local news as many concerned and informed parents are increasingly taking precautions to minimize their children’s exposure to any sort of microwave technology.
The fact is that the long term effects of microwave radiation on children’s developing brains are completely unknown.
What is known is that a child’s brain is not fully developed until about age 20 and until that time, the skull is thinner to permit its continued growth and development.  Hence, a child’s brain is extremely sensitive to the effects of any type of EMF radiation (1).
Wireless Baby Monitors: Â The Elephant in the Nursery
While most parents would agree that installing a cell phone tower next to a school would be dangerous and definitely not a good idea, many of these same parents are unaware of the very similar danger posed by baby monitors, devices ironically designed for child safety!
When my first child was born, like all the other mothers I knew, I had a baby monitor on my baby shower list.
At that time, baby monitors were corded and plugged into a wall outlet, so I was very careful to keep it away from the baby’s crib and on a bureau across the room out of concern for strangulation risk from the cord.
In recent years, however, corded baby monitors have all but disappeared in favor of the new wireless models which pose a very severe risk of continuous microwave radiation in your child’s room.
According to Wired Child, a wireless baby monitor at less than 1 meter away from the baby’s crib was roughly equivalent to the microwave radiation experienced from a cell phone tower only 150 meters away.
With most baby monitors now wireless and the risk of strangulation from the cords no longer an issue, many parents are putting them right in the crib so a distance of 1 meter or less is not so far fetched. Even a wireless monitor across the room would still pose a danger, albeit a reduced one.
How to Keep Tabs on Your Baby Without Wireless Baby Monitors
The best way to keep tabs on your baby is to have the child’s nursery next to the master bedroom and use your ears.  It’s how Grandma did it after all!
If you absolutely must have a baby monitor for when your child is napping during the day and you are elsewhere in the house doing chores, then use one of the old-style corded (analog) monitors that you can probably find at a garage sale for next to nothing.
While all wireless baby monitors are a problem, the high-frequency digital models are the absolute worst.  Analog monitors are a better choice than digital and if you can find one that is non-pulsing and low frequency in the 35-50 MHz range then that would be the only wireless option that should be considered. Typically, these analog monitors only have a few channels.  Even analog monitors, however, should be kept at least 3 feet from the child’s bed and if possible, used sparingly.
According to PowerWatch, parents that switch out wireless baby monitors for an old-style plug-in monitor or none at all report the child crying less, having less irritability and sleeping better.
Taking care to get the microwave radiation out of your baby’s room to protect her developing brain may have the distinct advantage of a better night’s sleep – for everyone in the house!
References
Digital Cordless Baby Monitors (PowerWatch)
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This article is written by alarmists. There are so many frequencies and signals bouncing around the atmosphere on would have to live in a lead box to avoid them. But the problem with the lead box is that some groups will have a problem with the lead because some kid might take a BITE out if the box and get poisoned…. Really Now wireless baby monitors? OK let’s remove ALL cell phones, cordless phones, microwaves, TV remotes, house alarms with off site monitoring, GPS systems, CFL bulbs because of the mercury inside them. No satellite TV because of the digital signals too. Do not go to concerts or shows at Disney because they use wireless technology too. A baby monitor is just a wireless microphone… BTW where is the hard science on this? Where are the years of data and research or is this just more tree huggers trying to have another 15 minutes of fame… I am sorry, I say Hogwash!
Yes, waves bathe us wherever we go, but the issue addressed here is chronic, constant exposure at close proximity, and taking prudent steps to reduce exposure. You may want to explore the website and position papers of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.
A better question would be…where are the years of research that show all this is safe? I’d rather not let my child be the experiment.
@Shanna does a cradle plug into the wall .. in other words the monitor itself can separate from the plugged in cradle and go wireless?
that sucks because i had to have one….my babe napped upstairs so it was the only way I could here him……now that he is older, i dont use it anymore….
P.S. Though I totally agree that NOT using EMF emitting devices is even better than using them with diodes but it’s pretty difficult to avoid them altogether, especially if you are out of your home or your neighbors have their wireless routers on 24/7.
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Mine is 100% digital, but plugs into the wall. I’m guessing it is still bad??
If you’re going to worry about microwave radiation (which may well be justified), worry about your cordless phone, your wireless internet, and radiation from your computers as well.
And all of these things in the houses around you and the cell phone towers and power lines and radio signals etc etc etc. There is no escaping these devil microwaves!
Great info, thank you!
What would you say about wireless keyboard and mouse? Are they as dangerous?
Yet another reason for co-sleeping!
My baby sleeps next to my side of the bed in a bassinet and I have my smart phone. In a pouch by her head to check the time. Does a phone emit radiation levels that I should be concerned about?
Yes, this is a serious problem. Smart phones have microwave radiation near her head which is even higher than that from a wireless baby monitor.
Lisa, Go to Mercola.com and look at dangers of cell phones. There are a TON of articles and science there. If you have smart phone, you can turn it to “airplane mode” to stop the signal and still use the clock.