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Mobile phone pregnancy alert

USING a mobile phone while pregnant could cause behavioural and emotional problems in children, an international study has found.

Just two or three calls a day on a mobile can raise the risk of hyperactivity and emotional problems for children, US researchers have warned.

However, Australian pregnancy experts have dismissed the claim.

The study of more than 13,000 Danish mothers found those who used mobile phones while pregnant were 54 per cent more likely to report behavioural problems in their children.

The dangers are even greater if their children use mobiles before they turn seven, making them 80 per cent more likely to have behavioural problems than those never exposed to mobile phones.

Expectant mothers are warned about drinking alcohol, smoking, pesticides, food allergies and stress, but Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists president Dr Christine Tippett said it was far too early for them to worry about mobiles.

She said the study questioned mothers seven years after their pregnancy.

In the journal Epidemiology, University of California researchers said more work needed to be done in case mobile phones were a major public health problem.

They found that children who were exposed to mobiles before and after birth were 25 per cent more at risk of emotional problems, 24 per cent more likely to have difficulties relating to other children, 35 per cent more likely to be hyperactive and 49 per cent more likely to have behavioural problems.

They said, however, their findings might mean that mothers who frequently used mobile phones paid less attention to their children.

Having heard about the study yesterday -- just hours after giving birth to daughter Maizy at 5.05am at the Mercy Hospital for Women -- Alisa Turner was glad she had used her mobile on speaker phone over the previous months just in case there was any danger.

"Next time I would probably look into using a hands-free or a headset, just to be sure," she said.

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