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Wed May 20, 2015, 08:29 AM May 2015

Attention Pregnant Moms - Cellphone ring tones startle/disturb fetus

Ringing Cell Phones Startle Mom’s Unborn Baby New Study Finds

A recent study focusing on an unborn baby's startle reflex and how the sleep and wake cycles are affected found a connection between the ringtones on smartphones and the heartbeat of an unborn baby.

The study found that 90 percent of unborn babies monitored exhibited a startle reflex on the first smartphone ring. With phones programmed to ring repeatedly every 10 minutes, 80 percent of the unborn babies continued to be startled.

Read more:
http://www.kvue.com/story/news/health/2015/05/19/smartphone-rings-trigger-startle-reflex-in-unborn-babies/27604733/

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Does Mom's Cell Phone Startle the Fetus?

http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20150506/does-moms-cellphone-startle-the-fetus?src=RSS_PUBLIC

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