CHAPTER- 1

(1.1)INTRODUCTION
“Electromagnetic pollution caused by mobile phone radiations may be the most
significant form of pollution human activity has produced this century, all the more
dangerous because it is invisible and insensible.”
Andrew Weill

Mobile phone or cellular phone is a long range and portable electronic device
used for communication .now mobile phones can support many additional services
such as short message service for the texting the messaging, email packet switching for
accessing to the internet, and multimedia messaging services for sending the video.
Mobile phones operate by using radio waves, a form of non-ionizing radiation, the
radio waves transmit to the base station and back again.

A base station is a tower mounted on a building at heights between 15 and 30 meters these are
surrounded by electromagnetic fields, and it emits radiation about 20-40 watts of radio
frequency. The intensity of the radiation decreases beyond a few meters from the antenna because
these are located in populated areas.

Cell phone radiation is one type of non ionizing electromagnetic radiation. Other
types of electromagnetic radiation include radio frequencies, microwaves and electromagnetic
frequencies. Cell phone radiation cannot be seen. It is invisible. For most pregnant women,
it cannot be sensed or felt either. Women can’t able to see, feel or hear the thousands upon
thousands of Electro Magnetic Radiation frequencies that are continuously bombarding every
cell in our body 24 hours a day. This explosion of wireless technology is drowning human
beings in a sea of electro pollution and cell phone radiation.

The women when she becomes pregnant from the first week to the next 40
weeks she will be on a truly exciting journey as she actively takes part in the
miracle of creating a new life. During that period many of the physical changes,
physiological changes, and emotional changes occur. pregnancy can be an intense time
in the life of an expecting mother’s heart and mind, and it can be referred as a
transformational experience. These 40 weeks of pregnancy are split into three
frames of references each trimester is filled with distinct pattern of fetal
development, emotional changes and physical changes to the pregnant women’s body.
The first trimester is a time of crucial development in the fetus . Most miscarriages
occur during the first trimester and often a women experiences a pregnancy loss before
she even realizes that she was pregnant.

During this exciting journey the cell phone radiations causes many ill effects affecting the
physical, mental and the emotional state of women. These detrimental radiations play their
role in shaping the later life of the woman as well as the newborn. There are
numerous people including pregnant women who are unaware of the fact that they are
being continuously exposed to the injurious cellular radiations around them which are
negatively affecting their health. They deeply affect the brain cells of mother as well as
her child. One cannot deny the fact that these invisible radiations can impart a deep-
rooted ill-effect on the life plus health of the child which is yet to be born. These
radiations have an unpleasant effect on the life of the developing child as well as the
 mother during pregnancy.

It is necessary to investigate, understand and monitor the adverse effects of mobile phone usage during
pregnancy and prevent further complication of mobile phones used by pregnant mother, hence
education regarding the impact of mobile phone usage during pregnancy is important