Belly ArmorBelly Blanket Chic Organic

I got the package in the mail today and immediately proceeded to wrap up my cellphone and have someone call me. They got my voicemail. Once I unwrapped it, the display showed no signal and tried to immediately reacquire it. Impressive. I wish they made these a little bigger to serve as a blanket for a bed.

I don't wish to offend anyone by saying this, but the "science" explained by several reviews of this item is partially incorrect and could be misleading. As such, I'm writing this to clarify the issue of what this blanket will and will not protect you from.First, cell phone signals are RF, radio frequency radiation. This is something you are exposed to one hundred percent of the time, any place you could use a radio antenna to pick up a signal, and cannot block without covering your entire body in an entirely different type of fabric. Is it harmful? A bit, but nowhere near as harmful as the types of radiation this blanket actually deals with. To be clear, we are all blanketed in RF, at all times, and have been since before birth. Whether it is dangerous or not is irrelevant as we cannot reasonably escape RF.Second, the DANGER of, for example, cell phones, is posed by the radiation PRODUCED BY cell phones, not received by them, but also the separate data signal. That is to say, if you have bars, you can make and receive calls but you might not have a data signal as the data (which is basically wi-fi) is a different kind of signal. So what you need to understand is that, first, cell phones PRODUCE MICROWAVE radiation. This radiation, emanating from the devices themselves, radiates outward 360 degrees from the device at all times when it is powered on (even if you are not talking on it or using it at the time). This means that if you have it lying on the table nearby or in your pocket, you are being exposed. If you have it charging, it is putting out microwaves. If you are talking on it, same thing. If it is turned off, it is producing nothing and is safe (though the wi-fi signal which is microwave radiation is still there as is the RF field or cell signal). You must also understand that there are microwaves "in the air" so to speak, in the form of data signals and these are separate from your RF call signal and in addition to your cell phone produced radiation.For your edification, the average microwave output of a cell phone (that is separate from the wi-fi surrounding you) is 1 Watt (the average microwave oven has been around 1000 Watts for a decade or so). What does this mean for you? Well, 1 Watt adding up over time is enough to disrupt the blood-brain barrier, demyelinate neurons, and act as a mutagen on human reproductive cells. In other words, 1 Watt for an hour a day can cause similar long term damage to 60 Watts in one minute WITHOUT causing the heat damage. In other words, you are cooking yourself very, very slowly. Laptops also put out microwave radiation. So do Wireless routers and other devices. For additional information on this issue, you can visit the World Health Organization website or just do a search on cell phones and cancer.That having been said, of the problem frequencies we are exposed to, RF which is everywhere all the time (under the chair you'd be sitting on to use this blanket), EMF which you can attenuate by removing certain devices from your home but which can not be fully removed if you live in a city, and Microwave, the one you must be most concerned about is the microwave radiation. Please don't let people who don't know one type of radiation from another dissuade you from using a radiation barrier, be it this one or another, to protect yourself and your babies.First, of course, you can follow the basic rules and always keep cell phones in microwave radiation blocked pouches at all times (never on your body or next to your head or lying on the table nearby) and use a speaker and microphone attachment or an air tube headset (if you can tolerate using those things) whenever you use it and throw out your wireless router (returning to a wired connection network) but if you have neighbors and a wi-fi signal to your phone, you are still standing in the middle of a microwave signal based network, though nowhere near as dangerous as that 1 Watt of power your phone is putting out. If you must be a texter/typer/browser, you can use a shield fabric between your hands and your belly, covering as high and low as possible and as far around your body as possible, even knowing that network radiation is out there, and the fabric will protect from the phone itself.Second, do your homework. This blanket is a great first step but you can purchase silver bound nylon or polyester fabric from online vendors which you can sew onto larger blankets, clothing, hang in front of your microwave and so on. This is something you should do, if you can afford to.I'm not rich, let's face it, I'm really not rich, and I save to purchase fabric strategically. I bought my first to shield a microwave. It is closed at all times except when I pull it up to open the door, set something inside, close the door, enter a time and press start. At that point, the fabric drops and I leave the room. I use these blankets (for convenience, as they come pre-sewn with cotton) but also use silver bound nylon and polyester weaves that can be purchased by themselves and then sewn onto whatever fabric you select for lining for larger sheets to hang around the TV cupboard when it is not in use and to lay over the animals when they sleep. To put it simply, the applications are endless when you just pick the size you want and order the fabric separately.I will say, as an aside, that the high quality silver fabrics run around half of this cost for a similar size and when making, as an example, a curtain for around the microwave, so it is far cheaper to purchase fabric and then sew the liner on yourself.That having been said, this product does block MICROWAVE radiation which is mutagenic (can harm fetuses and all of us fully formed humans for that matter). However, it will only protect between you and an object directly on top of it. Fields are usually larger and would require a wrap around your body from over your head to below your knees to fully protect a fetus. Fortunately, microwave radiation has a hot zone and cools as you get farther away so even just using this one tiny little blanket or a belly band will provide dramatic protection to your developing child or to your reproductive organs (think about the eggs that make your developing children). As a random example, just unplugging a laptop cuts 50% to 80% of dangerous emissions so adding a blanket can be a dramatic improvement even if it doesn't cover everything.If you are concerned, and you rightly should be, belly bands and shirts of radiation shielding fabric and blankets like this WILL help by reducing exposure. However, if you use a cell phone, holding it to your head, you will still be exposing your child as you can't block the signal through your own torso.I hope this helps and I'm sorry to have used so many words to explain this but it is such an important issue and faults in the scientific explanation on these sorts of issues is what typically leaves people making poor decisions where their health is concerned. One person confusing RF and Microwave radiation in a review or forgetting that the highest level of that radiation is from the phone itself, even given the nature if wi-fi signals, can lead to hundreds of women opting not to use any form of radiation protection simply because she walks away thinking it is not worth it. So, please, be advised, metal bound fabrics, particularly silver embedded fabrics, will shield against microwaves and this blanket does protect you, just not from everything you are exposed to. Don't bother with RF protection unless you are shielding your home. You get RF in the shower and shielding paint is the only solution there (yes that exists). But for microwaves, this product and products like it, that can protect you from the most dangerous forms of radiation you are being exposed to, are available and should be used.I wish you luck in your search for a safe shielding option for you and your family and I'm sorry to have taken so much of your time. Good luck.

Don't know if it really works. But been using it during my entire pregnancy, didn't stop playing my iphone and laptop,my baby was born last month, he was perfect.

I haven’t tested how well it works against blocking emfs, however it is an adorable, comfy blanket, even to use as a baby or child’s blanket. My kid loves to use it and I’m constantly using it as well.

Really happy with this purchase. Used the blanket both during pregnancy and now afterwards.