The day before yesterday, everyone was chatting in the group, and I accidentally talked about the "IQ tax" that was paid during pregnancy, and the answer was various.
Some mothers said that they had bought a "prenatal education headset", which was specially used to put it on the belly to play music for the baby, and then asked the doctor to know that the so-called "prenatal education headphones" not only did not play a role in prenatal education, but also easily hurt the baby's hearing development, scaring the mother to throw it into the trash.
There is also a mother who said that she has bought anti-stretch marks skin care products, special milk powder for pregnant women, etc., although these products are useless without exception, but the nominal function is "each has its own advantages".
And let everyone unanimously complain, the most iconic "IQ tax" in pregnancy, it is not "radiation protection clothing", almost 70% of the mothers in the group have purchased, the price is as little as one or two hundred, more than five or six hundred, really no less than the cost.
For the standard pregnancy "IQ tax" of radiation protection clothing, in fact, we only need to understand a little bit of secondary school physics knowledge to know that the online sentence "the lower the IQ, the greater the radiation" is completely valid.
In layman's terms, the radiation in our lives is divided into two kinds, namely ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation, mobile phones and other products that everyone contacts more, basically non-ionizing radiation, and the radiation generated by CT and X-rays in hospitals is ionizing radiation, non-ionizing radiation is harmless to the human body, and what really needs protection is ionizing radiation.
So if this is the case, why do everyone have such a "fondness" for radiation protection clothing?
In fact, although many expectant mothers know that radiation protection clothing will most likely be an "IQ tax", it is still inevitable to "suffer losses and be deceived", in the final analysis, it is actually "spending money to buy peace of mind".
Why would-be mothers be willing to pay for "peace of mind"?
Although the principle is very simple, many expectant mothers' academic qualifications are not low, but still can't help but obediently take out their wallets, but also argue that it is an "emotional stability tax", thinking that it is completely worth spending hundreds of yuan to buy peace of mind, the reason why everyone will have such a psychology, there are two main reasons.
On the one hand, the herd mentality is at work. To know that "with the flow" has always been the most basic mode of human behavior, for such a psychology, many merchants have developed a variety of consumption traps, and thus earn a lot of money, and radiation protection clothing is one of the very typical ones, although everyone knows that the so-called radiation protection is likely to have no effect, but seeing that everyone is buying, they will still be tempted to "follow the trend and place an order".
On the other hand, because many expectant mothers actually lack scientific and reliable sources of information, whether in life, or in the network, too much information is too complicated, always plausible, so many expectant mothers although they say that radiation protection clothing is "IQ tax", but the subconscious is not 100% sure, so with this "in case it is useful" attitude, radiation protection clothing should naturally be bought or bought.
It is precisely for this reason that for the average mother, it is crucial to find a scientific and reliable source of information during pregnancy, and only by truly achieving scientific pregnancy can we fundamentally avoid paying the "IQ tax" of radiation protection clothing. Otherwise, it will start to pay from the pregnancy period, and there will be a long parenting period behind it, and the "IQ tax" products developed by the merchants are more, which is really too hurtful.
How to obtain scientifically reliable sources of information?
In fact, it is not difficult to solve this problem, now that the Internet information is developed, pregnant mothers can find reliable answers on the Internet as long as they are careful.
In addition, like after pregnancy, the hospital will organize pregnant women training, pregnant mothers should also seize this opportunity, many of the more critical knowledge points during pregnancy will be discussed.
In addition, pregnant mothers can record it first when they encounter problems in normal times, and the pregnancy and obstetric examinations are frequent, and when they are taken out together at each obstetric examination to consult their own doctors, they can generally get reliable answers.
Old Miao Conclusion:
For such an "IQ tax" as radiation protection clothing, some expectant mothers may think that "spending money to buy peace of mind" is not a big problem, just spend money to buy a good attitude.
Although such a statement is not unreasonable, but the "IQ tax" in pregnancy is more than this one, under the careful construction of the merchant, it can be called a trap everywhere, "IQ tax" is everywhere, if the expectant mother blindly spends money to buy peace of mind, it is actually very costly.
Today's topic: What "IQ tax" did you pay during pregnancy?
I am Lao Miao, a super grandfather after the 80s, and the most eye-catching male head nurse in the hospital, welcome to discuss the issue of pregnancy together, and please pay attention to Lao Miao.