A mother describes precautionary steps for her infant and requests child-specific guidance, independent r…

I am writing as a mother and caregiver in response to this Request for Information. My son is seven months old, and like many parents I make dozens of small decisions every day about the environment he grows up in — including his exposure to wireless radiation. In our home we have taken simple precautionary steps: we keep phones off and away from our bodies, we use air-tube headphones instead of holding a transmitting phone to the head, our e-reader stays in airplane mode, and wireless devices stay out of the rooms where our baby sleeps. I have also looked into EMF-shielding textiles for his sleeping area. I am not a scientist, and I don't claim certainty about specific harms. But the existing exposure standards were designed around adults, and I have not seen clear, modern guidance that accounts for infants and small children — smaller bodies, developing brains, and decades more lifetime exposure ahead of them. That gap is exactly why I am writing. I ask HHS to: (1) develop child-specific, precautionary guidance for families; (2) fund independent research on RF exposure in infants and children; and (3) make the evidence behind any updated standards public and understandable to non-specialists. Thank you for inviting the voices of families and caregivers into this process.