Calm a crying, fussy baby
Hearing a baby cry and cry and cry is very difficult for me. I knew before I had children that there was no way I could just let my babies cry themselves to sleep in order not to “spoil” them! I’ve never agreed with that philosophy because I believe that babies [...]

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The musical, preemie pacifier

I thought I had heard it all when I was first told about the musical pacifier, but when I began to understand all the benefits, I changed my mind!
The smallest baby ever to survive was born just a few months ago, weighing in at just under 10 ounces — the size [...]

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It’s Official: Music can help preemies with pain
“Music may reduce pain and improve behavioral states in premature infants, researchers found.”
LITTLE FALLS, N.J., May 29 — Music may reduce pain and improve behavioral states in premature infants, researchers found.
A systematic review of nine studies investigating the effects of music on outcomes in premature babies found preliminary [...]

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Picture a mother softly crooning to her newborn.  Picture this throughout history because I believe that mothers have instinctively done this from the beginning of time.  Why?  Because it calms the infant and it also calms the mother!  What if the baby comes early? 
No one plans for a preemie but all over the world, preemies [...]

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Why Mozart with babies?

This past week I was speaking at a hospital in New York and the subject was “The Importance ofMusic with Pregnancy, Preemies, and Newborns.” The topic arose as to whether playing Mozart was better for unborn children than singing lullabies. My opinion, based on all the research I have read is that [...]

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Adult ‘preemies’ get NICU treatment

By Lois M. Collins
Deseret News

Published: Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 1:06 a.m. MST

The room is dark and mostly silent, except for the sound of a heartbeat that seems to reverberate everywhere. “Baby” lies on the floor, eyes closed and peaceful. Then the doors fling open and noisy people rush in, grasping at [...]

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Your unborn baby’s hearing
Throughout my three pregnancies I wondered, “can my baby hear the music around me; can she hear my conversations with friends and family?” Well, I didn’t know the answer then, but I do now! The developing ear is beginning to be functional by the beginning of the second trimester! Research shows that [...]

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How does music help a sick preemie or baby?

When your infant is sick, you’ll do anything to turn the tide, right? Music therapy has been around for literally thousands of years, but most people don’t realize how powerfully healing music can be. With a preemie or newborn full-term infant, there are many benefits.

When a [...]

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Throughout my three pregnancies I wondered, “can my baby hear the music around me; can she hear my conversations with friends and family?” Well, I didn’t know the answer then, but I do now! The developing ear is beginning to be functional by the beginning of the second trimester! Research shows that around the beginning [...]

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Breastfeeding and Lullabies
Nursing your baby is one of the best things you can do to get her off to a healthy start in life. Research and common wisdom tells us that Mommy’s milk is meant to feed a newborn baby and no baby is ever going to be allergic to Mommy’s mild. It almost [...]

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Man sings to infant daughter during surgery

Just moments ago I read about a man who sang a love song to his six-month-old daughter during her open-heart surgery. The original citation of this can be found at http://teamtsunamiblog.blogspot.com/. What a beautiful thing! I would love to know more about this story but it definitely seems like [...]

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Have you wondered what your unborn child really hears? According to Giselle E. Whitwell, a pre-natal music therapist in Los Angeles, “Uterine sounds form a “sound carpet” over which the mother’s voice in particular appears very distinct and which the prenate gives special attention because it is so different from its own amniotic environment. [...]

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Recent research is suggesting that even infants can detect slight changes in a piece of classical music. Canadian researchers say babies can remember complex classical music, even after a two week delay. Their findings were detailed at a recent meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.   To read more about this fascinating study, click HERE.

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Hospitalization can stress out anyone, but especially severely premature babies, who are born neurologically immature. Florida State University music therapist Jayne Standley and her colleagues are reducing the trauma and speeding the pace of the infants’ progression with a simple tool: a customized pacifier and a round of lullabies. [paragraph] Babies born before the 34th [...]

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