{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-6147","name":"Anonymous Anonymous","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-28T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-20T04:00Z","body":"Question 2: I am responding as an individual consumer, a mother, and a member of a household where both adults work from home. I am not a scientist or medical professional. My comments are based on my own experience. My husband has submitted a separate response describing his own experience and measurements.\nQuestion 3: From 2022 to 2024 we lived about 400 metres from a mobile phone base station that carried 5G. My husband’s meter readings outdoors facing the mast were much higher than at our current home. Our house also had a lot of wireless technology, including Wi-Fi, several smart speakers, and wireless smart lights, switches and sensors. I worked from home, using my mobile phone regularly, with my desk beside our Wi-Fi router for most of the working day.\nWhile living there I had two miscarriages. I also developed tinnitus, anxiety, pressure in my head and difficulty sleeping.\nWhen we became aware of possible risks, we removed all the wireless devices from the house after both miscarriages, and in late 2024 we moved to a home further from base stations, where we do not use Wi-Fi and indoor readings are very low. My symptoms went away completely after the move. We conceived without difficulty and I have had a successful pregnancy.\nIn late 2025 my symptoms returned. Only afterwards did we notice that a nearby base station had been rebuilt taller, with six new antennas; the operator has since confirmed the site runs 5G. By late 2026 my symptoms had become unbearable. We now sleep inside a shielding canopy over the bed, and we have fitted shielding to our windows.\nI understand that miscarriage is common and has many causes, and that other things in our lives changed when we moved. I am not claiming that wireless exposure caused my losses or my symptoms, and I know my observations are not blinded. Some research exists on exposure in pregnancy, including mobile phone use and living near base stations. That gap is why I am writing.\n\nQuestion 11: Pregnant women and unborn children should be a priority population in research and exposure guidance. Simple advice, such as keeping routers away from where people sit for long periods and limiting wireless devices in the home, costs nothing and could be given now.\nQuestion 16: I would like independent, publicly funded research into reproductive outcomes, including miscarriage and fertility, in relation to everyday combined exposure at home and at work, using measured exposure rather than estimates based on phone use.\n\nQuestion 18: I am concerned about how quickly new wireless technologies are being installed outdoors and inside buildings, including Wi-Fi throughout schools, where children spend most of their day and have no choice about their exposure. Reviews commissioned by the World Health Organization found very little research on long-term exposure and cognition in children, and one Swiss study of adolescents found an association between mobile phone exposure to the head and poorer memory development, which the authors say needs confirming. I recommend that new technologies and frequency bands are independently assessed for health effects before widespread rollout, and that schools follow France’s approach since 2015: no Wi-Fi in spaces for children under three, Wi-Fi switched off in primary schools when not needed for teaching, and parents told before new wireless equipment is installed.\nAll information in this response is from my own experience and is not peer-reviewed research.\n","source_hash":"1c120415029104c82ce1caffd61427268e3e7bcfc595e1933c65e71538d59bb1","filing_type":"","proceedings":"","captured_at":"","source_name":"","number":"6147","withheld":false,"attachment_inventory":true,"capture_reviewed":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-6147","slug":"child-development-comment-6147","tags":[],"attachments":[],"attachment_names":[],"classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-6147","body_sha256":"49c96c568d8c5789201ffcc7631d00055245e8b6f17aa503e8f4e40f29d8302f","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"reproductive","topics":[{"id":"reproductive","evidence":"of the working day.\nWhile living there I had two miscarriages. 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My husband’s meter readings outdoors facing the"},{"id":"research","evidence":"ould be given now.\nQuestion 16: I would like independent, publicly funded research into reproductive outcomes, including miscarriage and fertility,"},{"id":"children","evidence":" approach since 2015: no Wi-Fi in spaces for children under three, Wi-Fi switched off in primary schools when not needed for teach"}],"summary":"Recounts miscarriages and neurological symptoms during periods of wireless exposure while explicitly rejecting causal certainty, and requests measured-exposure reproductive studies and precautionary school guidance.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-28T23:54:32Z","review_method":"Full comment-text review with exact source evidence; attachments not reviewed","review_source_sha256":"4bb44154496c61b57566754f9bc01ad0415b66a23e2a94cc136b438f0a379e6f","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"supplied_classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-6147","body_sha256":"49c96c568d8c5789201ffcc7631d00055245e8b6f17aa503e8f4e40f29d8302f","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"reproductive","topics":[{"id":"reproductive","evidence":"of the working day.\nWhile living there I had two miscarriages. I also developed tinnitus, anxiety, pressure in my head and dif"},{"id":"neurological","evidence":"ere I had two miscarriages. I also developed tinnitus, anxiety, pressure in my head and difficulty sleeping.\nWhen we b"},{"id":"wifi","evidence":"ile phone regularly, with my desk beside our Wi-Fi router for most of the working day.\nWhile living there I had two miscar"},{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":"022 to 2024 we lived about 400 metres from a mobile phone base station that carried 5G. My husband’s meter readings outdoors facing the"},{"id":"research","evidence":"ould be given now.\nQuestion 16: I would like independent, publicly funded research into reproductive outcomes, including miscarriage and fertility,"},{"id":"children","evidence":" approach since 2015: no Wi-Fi in spaces for children under three, Wi-Fi switched off in primary schools when not needed for teach"}],"summary":"Recounts miscarriages and neurological symptoms during periods of wireless exposure while explicitly rejecting causal certainty, and requests measured-exposure reproductive studies and precautionary school guidance.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-28T23:54:32Z","review_method":"Full comment-text review with exact source evidence; attachments not reviewed","review_source_sha256":"4bb44154496c61b57566754f9bc01ad0415b66a23e2a94cc136b438f0a379e6f","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"attachment_metadata":[],"mirror_fingerprint":"cf52793a3c90ada5fefabe0ba4b52aa1a44b8b3985f418017889984d594d69a8","seo_modified":"2026-10-29T15:28:52Z","forum_topics":["reproductive","neurological","wifi","infrastructure","research","children"],"primary_topic":"reproductive","forum_title":"Recounts miscarriages and neurological symptoms during periods of wireless exposure while explicitly reje…"}