At present, the risk of mobile phone use during pregnancy to offspring is still controversial, and a large number of epidemiological studies and experimental studies believe that electromagnetic radiation, including mobile phones, has an impact on abnormal pregnancy and offspring development, but some studies believe that exposure such as video terminals does not increase the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and birth defects.
Although there is no consensus on the harm of electromagnetic radiation exposure to reproductive health during pregnancy, medical personnel often recommend the rational or reduced use of electronic products when educating pregnant women about their health. The longer the frequency of mobile phone use in the first trimester of pregnancy, the higher the incidence of frequent night awakenings in infants, and the two still showed a positive correlation after adjusting for possible confounding factors.
Excessive use of mobile phones in the first trimester may continue into the postpartum period, and excessive use of mobile phones can lead to nighttime sleep problems such as long nighttime sleep latency, low sleep efficiency, and short nighttime sleep periods. Night-time breastfeeding can also affect the quality of sleep in postpartum mothers, and when the two are combined, they may affect infant night-wake behavior by influencing the mother's nighttime sleep.
Most of the research on the influencing factors of infant night awakening focuses on parenting behavior and postnatal sleep environment factors. The impact of video screen exposure or premature exposure of electronic products and infant sleep is a more concerned issue in the field of children's sleep in recent years, and relevant scholars believe that video screen exposure will affect the sleep of infants and young children by affecting melatonin secretion and excessive nervous excitement before going to bed.
Therefore, the social problem of excessive use of mobile phones has an impact on the development of offspring in the first trimester of pregnancy. At the same time, pregnant mothers use mobile phones for a long time, which will indirectly affect the baby due to the quality of their own sleep, such as:
1. Inflammatory response
Prolonged sleep deprivation stimulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and the secretion of pro-inflammatory factors increases, producing stress and abnormal inflammatory responses that affect your baby.
Factors such as poor sleep, infection or psychological stress can produce and promote inflammation, and inflammatory mediators can initiate contractions, encourage cervical maturation, cause peripheral vasoconstriction, endothelial dysfunction and then membrane rupture, resulting in reduced blood flow to the fetus supplied by the placenta, which may be a factor in preterm birth.
2. Abnormal melatonin secretion
Melatonin acts on the reproductive system, central nervous system, cardiovascular system, immune system, etc., can regulate rhythm, antioxidant, regulate immunity, anti-tumor, etc. Long-term sleep disorders can lead to abnormal melatonin secretion of the body, affecting pregnancy-related rhythms.
Third, metabolic disorders
Reduced sleep duration during pregnancy may lead to glucose metabolism dysfunction, resulting in gestational diabetes in pregnant women.
Pregnant mothers using mobile phones for a long time may affect the baby's development, but also affect their own sleep, and pregnant mothers have a higher risk of sleep disorders than the average person. Sleep disorders in pregnant mothers increase the risk of diseases such as diabetes and depression during pregnancy, and also increase the chance of preterm birth. Sleep disorders in pregnant mothers can affect the baby through inflammatory response, melatonin secretion, metabolism and other aspects.
In summary, the health care work in the first trimester should pay attention to reducing video screen exposure, and pregnant mothers can minimize the use of mobile phones.